the non profit space relies on Congressional deadlock

I know several people that vote for and donate to campaigns for senators on the other side of the aisle just to help ensure gridlock

the next layer after that is that tax education is so poor that the population doesnt even know what laws they want to change

so its not worth talking about as that ensures another 100 years of “tax the rich” turning into “tax the income of wage workers making over $500k” by the time a bill makes it out of committee

(I don’t find that controversial, just different enough to be interesting)

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LargeWu an hour ago | parent | next [-]

The number of people who would do that has got to be less than a rounding error.

	▲	yieldcrv 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		what's more important to me isn't the single person vote itself, the campaign and cause contributions would be influential and the behavior is different than what people think those with money and some power in their domain are doing, how they're navigating and choosing candidates

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dboreham an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You can tell this is happening from the fact that all elections seem to end up being a 49/51 result. There's some strange Nash Equilibrium thing going on.

	▲	yieldcrv 37 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		that's just run of the mill polarization in the country, and that the party with more people hasn't been inspired to mass move them around the country for 5-8 months one year to register to vote and tip every election
	▲	wat10000 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That doesn't require anything nefarious. The parties can and do change their platforms and candidates to adapt to the electorate. If a party starts finding a way to win more votes, the other party will adjust to win them back. It's like how prices at different gas stations tend to be within a few percent of each other. It's not conspiracy, just competition.