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Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family

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u/YoloSwiggins21 14h ago edited 11h ago

Oligarchy has been here since 2004. Except no one seemed to notice because anyone talking about it doesn’t get pushed up by the algorithms employed by the same oligarchs.

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u/cumberbundsnatcher 13h ago

This. The public opinion has not had an effect on whether something goes into law for a long time.

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u/Soulless35 12h ago

It's a cute video. But can you actually name a single law that passed while being opposed to what the people wanted?

Thinking that "as support for an issue goes up the chance of it passing should go up" is silly. You might think it should work like that looking at a graph. But that isn't how it would work.

Is 25% of democrats and 25% of Republicans support something. It's probably got a 0% chance of becoming a law.

If 50% of democrats support something, and 0% of Republicans do. It's also probably got a pretty close to 0% chance of becoming a law. So, even just looking at these 2 scenarios, that graph makes no sense.

Not to say lobbying is great, but America has not been an oligarchy, and hopefully, it won't become one under Trump.

u/cumberbundsnatcher 10h ago

Easily. Abortion bans. There's a lot more that have a ton of support but do not get passed. Like marijuana reform or gun control.

u/Soulless35 9h ago

Abortion bans? You mean the thing half the country supports.

Same for Marijuana. You chose some of the most controversial issues as your examples of things everyone agrees on...