As Henry Adams wrote in the 1890s: “We have a single system and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.”
I can totally see that being the case. Because every measure "designed" to "get the money out of politics" would never have been proposed -- unless there was already some way to work around it.
We were in Home Depot one time and this is older gentlemen overheard something I was talking to my wife about. He said, "You know when US politics was ruined? When rich people stopped running for office, and poor people started running for office -- to get rich."
He had a damn good point though. People were once running to actually do the right thing. I feel like those times are behind us. At least for now.
A 2014 Princeton study also concluded the average American citizen has no power: “Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.” https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
As Henry Adams wrote in the 1890s: “We have a single system and in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses.”
I can totally see that being the case. Because every measure "designed" to "get the money out of politics" would never have been proposed -- unless there was already some way to work around it.
We were in Home Depot one time and this is older gentlemen overheard something I was talking to my wife about. He said, "You know when US politics was ruined? When rich people stopped running for office, and poor people started running for office -- to get rich."
He had a damn good point though. People were once running to actually do the right thing. I feel like those times are behind us. At least for now.
In 2016, Sanders won every single county in Wisconsin but one in the Democratic Primary, but the “super delegates” went for Hillary.
The DNC ignored their voters.
Absolutely.
The DNC can't have the Democrat base picking the "wrong candidate."
The DNC says, "If we wanted your opinion we would have given it to you! Now, here's your candidate."
After all, they did the same thing with Kamala Harris in 2024. There was no vote at all. They didn't even pretend.