People get what they vote for. Unfortunately, the great majority of people are too busy with their everyday lives to care to dig into the background of potential candidates or to care about being politically involved. Therefore, most are easily swayed by false promises and lies. Others, mostly Republicans, concentrate all of their attention on red herring issues such as abortion and gay marriage while their Republican representatives vote for measures that are often against the economic self-interest of their constituency.
We, the people, have a lot more power than we actually use. Imagine the potential power that people could have over corporate control of government if we actually made us of organized boycotts. Imagine if people actually read up on the voting recorRAB of the politicians they vote for and read up about the consequences of those voting recorRAB.
I know all this is wishful thinking. I mostly just want to note that we, the people, are also to blame for our current predicament.
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