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Comment by pphysch

2 years ago

This is such a strange position for me.

Do we not agree that corporate America and other special interest groups essentially control Washington via lobbying and corruption?

Do we not agree that a US citizen has (nominally) more leverage over their government than over an unaccountable private collective?

I mean, we are half a century deep into this Reaganite "your government is your enemy" experiment.

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colordrops  2 years ago

https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf

  • rangerelf  2 years ago

    You already mentioned this higher in the thread, no need to repeat yourself.

    For the record I agree with the grandparent post's question: at least, gov is _supposed_ to be controlled by the citizenry through elections, corporations are not. I can have ("should have") visibility into what the government is doing, corporations can hide (and do hide) as much real information as they can and there's no way for me to get to it.

    Whether it's naive of me to think so or not is not what is being discussed here.