• cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    Have you considered that the people were only given two options, bad and worse? The bad option wasn’t working out for people, so they decided to try the worse one, and now we’re here.

    There are countless examples of the government ignoring popular demand. Extensive polling shows that most Americans support a wealth tax. It’s not going to happen because almost every politician is paid for by billionaires. Have you heard of super PACs?

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      14 hours ago

      this is just more argument for billionaires being worse than the government. remove moneyed interests and you’ll have a functioning government beholden to the people.

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        2 hours ago

        Government never has and never will be beholden to the people. When we put someone in a position of power, we become beholden to them. The whole idea that the people consent to being governed is ridiculous because we’re never given the option to vote against having a government.