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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Politics are so broken you can just say whatever and it doesn’t matter anymore in the US.

I mean, it does matter, because it does impact domestic policy.

You’ve got a large portion of the population that’s been innoculated against state regulation of business as a fundamental idea. And that same core group has been agitated to believe they need a massive (heavily privatized) police presence to protect them from poor, gay, brown, non-Christians

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Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It does matter if it gets to the policy level. Most of the time, it is just lip service to get elected though.

You certainly have a large part of the population that is clueless to important concepts such as regulatory capture. The government is no longer functioning as anything else than a mouthpiece for corporations.

Liberty is for the wealthy and their corporations by extension. Anything else is just propaganda that props up a system where your value is only determined by the wealth you have. This means the majority of people have no value in the current system.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  You certainly have a large part of the population that is clueless to important concepts such as regulatory capture.
  
  I don’t think they’re clueless. The term gets thrown around all the time, both in public debate and on back channel Internet feeds.
  
  But there’s a real deficit of trust between different people using the term.
  
  Very easy to understand the core concept of regulatory capture and to then establish the existence/function of the FDA with that concept in mind.
  
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  - Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Fair enough, I see what is happening pretty clearly. The wealthy, and their proxies the corporation, have captured the regulatory bodies of the US. They then use propaganda to blame the government for burdensome regulations meanwhile passing additional regulations to benefit them and removing regulations to also benefit them.
    
    The average person thinks it is government versus corporation but that is not at all what is happening. With all the conflicting propaganda we are fed it is a wonder that anyone can figure out what is going on.
    
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