(October 2, 2015 at 10:55 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(October 2, 2015 at 9:19 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Individual voters elect the politicians. Just because a guy spends $400 million on his campaign it doesn't mean that the dummies have to vote for him.
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Is that how you think their lobbyists function? If a republicunt threatens to support a gun control bill they threaten him with finding a primary opponent that they will finance to run against him. If a democrat threatens to support a gun control bill they threaten to finance the campaign of a republicunt shithead that they can control.
In such ways does the kleptocracy function.
The voters are still responsible for the people they elect. If they are routinely stupid enough to elect people who screw them then they need to be screwed hard.