• Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Sure, but it’s less about the money than it is about the act itself, the ultra wealthy can just throw money at lawyers to waste other people’s time, and wear them down, despite whatever outcome they still get what they want really

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      5 days ago

      Yep. This is because most people don’t vote in ways that would facilitate enacting legislation to correct that problem.

      Our system of checks and balances only works when we work it. Every time somebody throws up their hands and gives up because of some perceived roadblock, that is what preserves these systemic abuses. To rid ourselves of the abuses requires a public with the desire to actually participate in their own government more often than one day every fourth November.