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toomuchtodo 4 hours ago

If you want more aggressive anti trust enforcement, voters must vote better, for candidates and administrations that will aggressively enforce.

jackb4040 13 minutes ago | parent [-]

Unfortunately, Ivy-League research suggests the opinions of 90% of Americans have virtually no impact on legislation.. That is basically predetermined by lobbyists, paid for by the same corporations meant to be punished:

https://thinkbynumbers.org/democracy/voter-support-for-a-bil...

I think we either get a collapse into techno-feudalism, an anti-capitalist revolution (doubt), or a breakthrough savior of capitalism like FDR. The idea of "just vote better / harder" does not ring true to me or millions of people who have been hearing the same for decades while all these problems have gotten worse.

pstuart 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'm not going to discount that finding, but I'd posit that some of the hubris of elected officials comes from the assumption that people are voting their party line -- they are effectively a shoo-in for a majority of voters.

Partisan politics is bad for America and we were warned by Washington. These days, many people are more loyal to their party than they are to the country.