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cant cook creole bream posted:But if you look at a system with an elected leader, in theory that person would be interested in passing laws to pander to some smaller, but significant voting blocks. For example, some governor might present himself as gay friendly and allow gay marriage because he things homosexual people will help his reellection, while most straight people won't care in a significant negative way. This is an incredibly important effect in US politics. Special interest groups dominate a lot of government actions. When your livelihood depends on a particular government policy/regulation/law/whatever, you are much more invested in those laws & regulations than everybody else, and the guild/union/lobby which acts on your behalf will have an over-sized influence on the political decisions relative to the ambivalent majority 'opposition'. silence_kit fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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I'm a little surprised that posters here are so gung-ho about direct democracy, given that the party-line SA politics poster political platform is really not that popular in the United States.
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Jun 21, 2020 13:35
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OwlFancier posted:I wonder if that could be because there is a huge and noisy political class which exercises a wildly disproportionate control on the political preferences of the public. Well, if the majority of the general public has not seen the light because they have been tricked by The Bad Men, that still doesn't bode well for using direct democracy to achieve SA politics posters' political goals.
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Jun 21, 2020 13:44
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I think Rule by SA Politics Posters is the ideal form of government. It won't matter that everybody else has been tricked into having bad political opinions by The Bad Men since they won't be in charge.
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Jul 5, 2020 18:10
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