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.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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.