Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
Only one in ten American voters want a bigger military budget. Congress keeps approving massive spending increases anyway, as it did when it voted for a nearly $1 trillion military budget last week.
What the american people want has almost no bearing on what the elites who control the american empire decide to do.
No major policy has matched public opinion since the end of the civil rights era. In gender, ethnicity and wealth, our representatives are not representative of us either.
It’s naive to think we live in a democracy.
What the people want isn’t always right either. Case in point: Trump.
Democracies work if the society invests in educating the voting public. This government does the opposite because they know smart = more likely left leaning.
I don’t think it’s correct to say the people want trump. Only ~30% of US adults voted for him.
The way they got our population to elect Trump is a motherfucking case study in democracy sabotage. The KGB manuals for destabilizing nations from 50 years ago describe how to amplify and boost the most extreme stories on both sides of every issue until the population tunes out and stops caring or paying attention.
I’m not saying it was just Russia that did this here, but that it’s a known and easy to accomplish tactic, aided by forces like Elon Musk who bought one of the largest media platforms, then outsourced the propaganda grinding to countries like India where the modest income they receive from shares and likes is enough to live on. That was deliberate, that was on purpose.
The news media outlets from MSNBC, to CNN to FOX to every other fringe corporate news organization are owned by and paid for by the same people who benefit from you thinking your side is winning and their side is losing. Either you become a frothing team-member or you get burned out and stop believing anything you read. Either result is a win to the oligarchy.