In a functioning society these people would be in jail. It is worse than the worst cases of insider trading and yet they are just sitting there gleefully counting their money. Utterly disgusting, traitors to their own country.

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Eextra953 a day ago | parent [-]

Speaks to the disconnect between our representatives and the people they represent so many of these policies are extremely unpopular and yet they still get pushed through to terrible effect. I don't understand why 'we' can't hold them accountable. Is it due to lack of education in what is happening? A lack of understanding in our political system? Is the populate just completely disconnected?

	▲	Terr_ a day ago \| parent [-]
		https://www.vox.com/2014/4/18/5624310/martin-gilens-testing-... > When the authors look only at the preferences of average citizens, it appears that they do have a pretty big effect on policy change. But when they add the preferences of economic elites and interest groups to the analysis, the impact of average citizens vanishes entirely. Basically, average citizens only get what they want if economic elites or interest groups also want it.