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There’s a further wrinkle: Neither of the major parties at the time pushed the lie that government can do no good for society, and lobbyists weren’t the force t
by eschaton 2y ago
There’s a further wrinkle: Neither of the major parties at the time pushed the lie that government can do no good for society, and lobbyists weren’t the force they are today, so there was much more tendency for legislators to effectively legislate. It’s not that there wasn’t corruption, of course, but legislators didn’t quite so often go against exactly what their constituents wanted when acting corruptly.
- gruez 2y ago>Neither of the major parties at the time pushed the lie that government can do no good for society As opposed to now when bipartisan support for industrial policy and tariffs, or that we need to crack down on big tech? The decade before there was bipartisan support for the war on terror.
- autoexec 2y ago> As opposed to now when bipartisan support for industrial policy That's what bribes will get you > The decade before there was bipartisan support for the war on terror. Of course generally both parties supported giving themselves more power. There were a few holdouts with integrity though.
- gruez 2y ago>That's what bribes will get you So when the government does nothing, it's "the major parties at the time pushed the lie that government can do no good for society" but when it does something it's "That's what bribes will get you"?