Quote Originally Posted by Renton View Post
Again, I don't think this particularly matters as long as the will of the people is pro-capitalist. Corporate interests are able to lobby politicians because the politicians have the power to sling billions of dollars around. They have that power because the U.S. populace believes that having a 6 trillion dollar state budget is alright by them.
Yeah, people are stupid.

If people knew how much damage this massive misallocation of resources was causing, they would vote to limit state power and lobbying wouldn't nearly be as profitable.


But people are stupid, though.

PS and you and I are absolutely included in 'people' here.