"the government" is not one person with a concrete ideology, it is an amalgamation of hundreds of people who all want different things and are theoretically beholden to their voter base.
"The government", like any other large corporation, is an entity in and of itself, and not a mere aggregation of the people who run it. It has institutional culture etc, and given what it is, said institutional culture tends to lean heavily towards a highly centralized, hierarchical approach to anything it perceives as a problem; and tends to perceive anything that threatens the applicability of this approach as a problem in its own right.
The government in the US is not beholden to “the people”.
Because of the setup of the electoral college, 2 senator per state where RI has the same number of Senators as California and gerrymandering, it is very much about the will of the minority.
That’s not to mention all of the things that get done by unelected officials and judges with lifetime tenure.
int_19h|2 years ago
scarface74|2 years ago
Because of the setup of the electoral college, 2 senator per state where RI has the same number of Senators as California and gerrymandering, it is very much about the will of the minority.
That’s not to mention all of the things that get done by unelected officials and judges with lifetime tenure.