Yep, that's the problem with congress and parliamentary systems. They divide guilt over hundreds of people, so that citizens cannot plausibly vote anyone out.
How naive and stupid are these government people? They've been swindled like this multiple times before, it was on the national news with the Obamacare website.
They're supposed to be the best we have. They won a vote after all.
You're not wrong, they're obviously (some of them, at least) bad people. I didn't fault the system specifically. You shouldn't need to issue and complete a legal challenge to get wrongs righted, but here we are.
I don't know how much you can really blame the voters, though. First-past-the-post is a large part of the problem, too. People want to make sure you're not a Republican before they vote for you, so you'd better make sure you be a Democrat! /s (or vice versa.)
Meanwhile, of course, the lobbyists are lined up with the checkbook out on both sides of the aisle.
I assume that many people find out themselves that they've been tricked shortly after the election and almost 4 years before the next election, when the first promises are broken.
> If the politicians don't follow up, you vote them out.
That's what I think where it lacks options. You cannot really vote politicians out. You can only vote politicians in. In some cases you can even only vote for parties, not for people. The ancient Greeks used to vote people out. I would at least want to be able to vote for party X, but not this guy, not this other guy and definitely not that guy who was the worst liar over the last 20 years, but somehow managed to stay afloat every time.
They are the government, so clearly there is no will to do anything about it. The same cretins are re-elected (perhaps because the single, viable, alternate option is even more despicable.
If we, the electorate, are not prepared to oust those that are clearly thieves and liars, than we shall receive that which we deserve.
Just ignore the fact that someone higher up the foodchain signed off on this and wont be held accountable, for their deliberate exploitation of the law if not the spirit of the law, knowing legislators write the laws and sign off on them.
Why do people keep voting for people to be their democratic representative again?
Exactly: the people this hurts the most are usually the ones voting for these politicians. So I don't even have any sympathy for them any more. If they want to vote to screw themselves over, who am I to tell them they're wrong?
I agree and worse is that most a lot of them actually believe 'the people' actually have a say in this while they don't. Well, at least not with voting. That was not the point though; governments are not doing the stuff they do without reason; there is a reason. It's just not what you would expect and hope from something as massive as a government.
To be fair the blame isn't entirely on them, the government should know better, and the people voting should. This is yet another thing the market cannot and will not fix.
How naive and stupid are these government people? They've been swindled like this multiple times before, it was on the national news with the Obamacare website.
They're supposed to be the best we have. They won a vote after all.
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