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You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that the vast sweep of the common people have any power over the decisions that govern their lives at all, beyond the doomsday power of revolution. Which is hardly ever used because of the mess.
The common people always have more power than they think
I've been rewatching Community and the more I watch it, the more I feel like Britta's "dumb" comments are real.
"If voting had any effect, it'd be illegal!"
The joke of that is voting is illegal, for quite a few people.
Voters are segregated, consent is manufactured, seats are gerrymandered, populists are vilified... But when all else fails, the elections don't matter and industry does as it pleases.
Democracy exists as an illusion of majority governance, so individuals in opposition feel alienated and at odds with unknown neighbors. The policy outcomes are put at the feet of popular majority, whether or not people actually want them.
Well the thing is that they're really trying to make it illegal for more and more people to vote.
That line is actually a quote from "Red" Emma Goldman.
Voting has the effect of allowing the population to feel they are steering the ship when actually they are swabbing the decks.
I have told the leaders of my county they were unwise to give our water supply to Amazon. The balance of wealth and power is staggeringly on the side of Amazon. They could buy and sell our entire county 100 times over but somehow our board of supervisors thinks we are going to get a fair deal? Idiots.