Mark Zuckerberg's plea for the billionaire class is deeply anti-democratic

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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It seems US politics has gotten to the point to where it's just billionaires competing with each other and the regular person is more and more cut out of the decision-making process.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, as outsider it hard to 'get into' specific things going on in states, let alone counties (yes, no r).

The Netherlands is 17mil people, 12 provinces and 355 municipalities (divided in politics by that order). It would be more than a day job to get into view what is going on where, who is behind things etc. So scaling that up to the USA is (in my view) even more bonkers than trying to 'get a view of the EU' and have that represent me (or my town, local-community) because guess what 99% doesn't give a shit about my town and maybe 10% even knows my town. To get to know what's going on (politically) in my town I need to go to evening meetings, if you have a normal job (kids perhaps) you're not going to do that (regularly).

Billionaires get easier access to these media (mostly located in big cities I presume) than a farmer with real issues (which she/he has read up on and has a nice use-case of how the law is f*gging everyone over except the importers from China). Both have ideas about politics with the B certainly money/brand driven and the person being driven by living.

Also (all, doesn't matter what country) politicians only use 'real' people as campaign anecdotes, just like Billionaire use 'normal' people, so they always have an easy to handle narrative on a 'normal person'. Hard working father of two, Single mother raising a handicapped child, stuff like that and those things are ehmm easy to ask questions about. Just a random person being questioned about their real situation and how they look at [policy being discussed] is just ehm not easy to ask stupid non-questions to/about... They don't fit in the imaginary checklist... like ehmm I don't know how to express it properly, but TL;DR: real people could turn an interview about their personal views into a garbage fire for whatever party they try to represent.

day dreaming Some billionaire explaining that hard work gets you money and then a nurse who lives paycheck to paycheck asking why he dodges taxes.

Okay, that was my Tuesday morning rant, yes the normie info-stream seems to be like that (what you said ;))