> Congress was so willing to act directly against the interests of more than half of Americans. Welcome to American politics, you seem to be new here. This is

> Congress was so willing to act directly against the interests of more than half of Americans. Welcome to American politics, you seem to be new here. This is a regular occurrence and always boils down to framing: [X] Tiktok is making America look bad vis-a-vis Palestine. [?] China is a domestic security threat and must be stopped. Congress will happily axe your favorite doomscrolling app if it's framed as an anti-pedophile move or domestic security issue. That hasn't shocked people in decades. Furthermore I wouldn't say that "half of Americans" necessarily know whats right for them. We are the fattest nation on the planet, voted Donald Trump into office (twice) and are addicted to social media that we know is harmful. Representative democracy is really a dignified way of letting Americans pretend to control the government while not killing themselves with their own legislation. If direct democracy controlled America's foreign policy, the nation would probably have crumbled by now.