Kind of. Democracies are often driven by entrenched interests. This is especially true in the US, with their non-compulsory voting. If your livelihood depends o

Kind of. Democracies are often driven by entrenched interests. This is especially true in the US, with their non-compulsory voting. If your livelihood depends on producing meat, you have an incentive to learn who supports it, and bother to actually vote. If you just think the meat industry is kind of icky, you won't bother informing yourself, and may not even bother voting. It doesn't help that politicians will go out of their way to communicated to these entrenched interests, but not try to tell regular voters what they are actually up to.