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> It gets monotonically worse from here, and there is no longer anything we can do about it. For decades now, government policy has had approximately nothing t
by quotemstr 2y ago
> It gets monotonically worse from here, and there is no longer anything we can do about it.
For decades now, government policy has had approximately nothing to do with the will of the public. (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...)
This situation is now being corrected. Anyone who sees this as a catastrophe, as getting "monotonically worse", is no fan of a republican form of government
- macintux 2y agoThis republican form of government was explicitly created to insulate law and justice from the direct will of the public.
- quotemstr 2y agoSo whose preferences should policy reflect? NGO presidents? Tech company employees in gatekeeper positions? Editorial column writers? Why these people and not the public? What gives them the right to rule?
- wredcoll 2y agoAre you asking why america has a republican form of government designed to minimize the power of the majority of the population? Well, partly because travel and communications were extremely slow when the constitution was written, but mostly because the rich land owners (and white males) were the ones writing it.
- macintux 2y agoIdeally not thin-skinned demagogic grifter kleptocrats with no respect for the Constitution or rule of law. Seems like a low bar to hurdle, yet here we are.