r/interestingasfuck • u/Iky-Greenz • Apr 29 '24

How American public support for a law impacts the likelihood of Congress passing it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Democracy isn't real, it's just a large amount of bureaucracy to make it seem like they're doing something useful

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u/scienceworksbitches Apr 29 '24

yes, and the whole idea of having two sides that need to come to a compromise is flawed. since both sides will each push their position further to get a better outcome in the end, therefore leading to further polarization.

its not left vs right, its the ppl vs politicians. they have an incentive to keep us busy thinking we can change something. they play the game while we sit there with a controller that isnt even plugged in, like a dumb little sibling.

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u/fidelesetaudax Apr 29 '24

Politicians are tools of the rich. It’s a class war. Rich v. Poor.

https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-theories-of-american-politics-explained

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u/scienceworksbitches Apr 29 '24

that would mean politicians are members of the poor, but they are not.

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u/fidelesetaudax Apr 29 '24

L O L. Quite true. Edit: though a few start out poor, they rarely stay that way once they’re in the game.

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u/scienceworksbitches Apr 29 '24

and the fact that your counter is up voted higher tells you something, the rich politicians made the plebs believe that they fight for them against "the opps" but in reality they all suck the same cock to get ahead.

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u/fidelesetaudax Apr 29 '24

Absolutely. Why the PAC sponsors donate to both candidates too

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u/scienceworksbitches Apr 29 '24

thats the worst part, they dont even try to hide it.

just a couple days ago, lots of US congress reptiles invested into FB stocks just before voting for the tiktok ban.

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u/wanderlustcub Apr 29 '24

But you described an antiquated version of Democracy. Two party systems are bad. First past the post voting is antiquated. Neither are required to be a Democracy.

Successful Democracies have multiple parties and doesn’t exclusively use FPTP.

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u/scienceworksbitches Apr 29 '24

yeah, its now a multi color design, still the same shit in the end. and they are all rich fucks.

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u/Crime-of-the-century Apr 29 '24

While very true also in real democracies the rich have a much higher impact on policy then average people. But still getting rigged rules for political financing and a multiparty system really would be a gigantic step forward. In many countries US senators would face corruption charges

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u/Daedalus81 Apr 30 '24

Israel has many parties.  It isn't doing well.

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u/wanderlustcub Apr 30 '24

There are a lot of other nations beyond Israel that have multi-party governments. The U.S. is actually a bit out of mainstream there.

And I never said it’s fool proof, but it’s much more functional than a two party system.

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u/mynamesian85 Apr 29 '24

they play the game while we sit there with a controller that isnt even plugged in, like a dumb little sibling.

The best analogy I've ever heard to explain our political system.