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Oh, and don't forget the voters, who mostly don't care, thus enabling the cartels that extract value from them to grow unchecked.
by tomaskafka 2y ago
Oh, and don't forget the voters, who mostly don't care, thus enabling the cartels that extract value from them to grow unchecked.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoI'm not sure that the voters don't care -- it's mostly that they don't know. Because they are being constantly flooded with messaging that screams in other directions: "it's the immigrants!!" "it's trans people!" "it's those f*ing libs!!" "it's those MAGA idiots!!" etc. etc. And because these things are complicated, it's hard to boil them down to a few words that stick with voters, and attempts to do so come off as "West/East Coast Elitism". This is why populism is great for large monopolistic corporations so long as it can be channeled away from them (which they spend a great deal of money on).
- dghlsakjg 2y agoThe potato cartel has convinced a lot of voters that what's good for the cartel is good for everyone...