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It really says something about how broken US politics are. Removing these bans would benefit basically everyone who doesn't own or work for a dealership. A quic
by elromulous 3y ago
It really says something about how broken US politics are. Removing these bans would benefit basically everyone who doesn't own or work for a dealership. A quick google search says roughly 1M people work for car dealerships (a number that is kind of staggering actually, and is likely that large because of how much money is artificially funnelled into it due to the regulation). I suspect we can neglect the number of people who own dealerships. With 300M people in the US, that's 1:300 in favor vs against this regulation. And yet because the real votes in the US are cast with dollars, not ballots, this will likely never change.
- Gunax 3y agoUS laws and constitutions were created to stop tyranny by making it very difficult to change anything. The result is most laws need a supermajority to pass. That's probably good at stopping bad laws, but it really stops all laws. IMO a sideeffect of this is that because courts create law by simple majority, they are often the only body capable of changing anything. As a result, we have politicized courts deciding things that should really just be legislated. If there was one thing I could change about American law it would be to make it easier to change the law, including constitutional amendments.