International Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA.

[terrapin]

There are people in the US starving right this second. But the most staunch proponents of capitalism would have us believe they should be grateful for much finer dumpsters to possibly eat out of than anywhere else.

That's right man. They would also tell us that by and large everyone is doing better. So we should just trust the current system to slowly over generations pull everyone out of poverty, starving people be damned!!!

That kind of cold-hearted disgusting autistic trust in the system and way of thinking pisses me off. Starving and dying children are just a casualty of this perfect system that only needs subtle tweaking around the edges.

 

[brothir]

I'm aware of the technical difference in execution. It doesnt change the fact that the majority of the population wholly disagreed with the decision, showing that what the population wants doesnt much factor into what the Government does depending on who is in power.

Clearly it is that big of a deal-breaker considering how many Americans:

1) voted to enshrine abortion access into their State Constitutions

2) are so unaware of how the Government functions that they don't get how voting for the access to the right by State wont mean much in the face of Federal banning, and the other anti-democratic means the GOP will plan to thwart that effort (it's already begun in Ohio and Missouri).

Americans vote against their interests as a working class because of dissent created by a media environment that pushes cultural divides as top priority. Are you new to this?

The issue with your approach is that saying yes/no to an isolated decision isn't a terribly useful metric because administrations are usually elected to do things in bulk. If a majority wants abortion nationally enshrined, that's also at risk of being offset by a politically strong minority - which is what I believe happened.

I'm disappointed you think I'm an idiot. No, I'm not new to the idea that media creates divisions. I also think it's wrong to frame it like that, as the reason divisive media originates is because of genuine divisions in the population. A non-trivial amount of people strongly disagree with your political direction, and that has consequences.

 

[brothir]

Nice side-step. Policy is only about tradeoffs when there are conflicting interests, and when specific ones have more influence over the levers of power.

Which is true for the entire history of democracy, and arguably true for all human societies ever.