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>>The US government has been working solely for their donors for the last 40+ years. Any benefit the voters get from lawmaking is coincidental. >That thought m
by Clubber 2y ago
>>The US government has been working solely for their donors for the last 40+ years. Any benefit the voters get from lawmaking is coincidental.
>That thought may be comforting, but no.
Why would that be comforting?
- esbranson 2y agoNot sure. The US Government has accrued a couple hundred years of unbroken political agitprop directed at it. From my observations, many people are comforted when anything tends to validate it, and otherwise ambivalent or oblivious to anything else. Underlying that is legal information that is inaccessible for most; the only books you can't check out of a library, a multitude of websites that never quite work. Newstainment that profits from attention does not help.
- Clubber 2y agoThere was a study on it that made a big splash a while back. The interpreted version is that policy is made for the wealthy and special interest groups. If it happens to coincide with was the public wants, it's merely coincidence. https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-... Sorry for the Vox link, that's what came up.