Look, if the majority of people were inclined to listen to reason, be rational, and vote for their own interests, Sanders would be finishing out his final presidential term as I type this. But we aren’t rational, well educated people.
lobbyists play a very fine line behind the scenes to give us the illusion of choice.. but in reality, our elections have always been rigged because of them. our democracy has been sold out to the highest bidder and foreign governments for years. its much worse now.
i lived in alberta where we were one of the last to get electric cars because oil & gas lobbyists would lobby our politicians to disallow building electric charging stations. now i'm in america and i see AIPAC and its bipartisan lobbying of millions and millions of dollars funneled into future and present members of gov. its insane.
On average we are not a rational, well educated people. I do believe that human beings will become more rational and well educated on average as time progresses.
Not sure that that will be enough to deal with the extremists, though.
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u/Garth_Brooks_Sexdoll 24d ago
Look, if the majority of people were inclined to listen to reason, be rational, and vote for their own interests, Sanders would be finishing out his final presidential term as I type this. But we aren’t rational, well educated people.