(April 19, 2025 at 6:07 am)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: Issue is that people might not really support what they say they support or see it as nice to have but not trumping other factors. Supposedly many poor wants minimum wage to be raised. Does their voting reflect it? Do they vote on people who said "yes" to raising minimum wage when bill for it was presented (or for those who pushed for said bill themselves, depends on vagaries of country system I guess) or merely on people who promise raising it. Ye shall know them by their fruits is one of pathetically small list of biblical wisdom; if one votes for those who say instead on of voting on those who do then one shouldn't complain about not getting what one want.
In the end politicians promises are only worth as much as people will to held them accountable. If politicians are reelected despite breaking them how can public complain about not getting what it wants?
Yes, we all wish that voters were better informed. It would be nice if they could do the math themselves, and see through the lies.
But they're up against about the most effective propaganda methods ever employed. And we're given very little choice. Bernie would have won, probably, but the Dems wouldn't let him get near the nomination.
There's blame enough to go around. I think that leaders should be held accountable, too, but how does that work in practice, when we're given a choice of two lying (and much lied-about) miscreants? People only know what they're told, and neither the politicians nor the corporate media have any loyalty to the truth.
