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I think a lot, or maybe even most of them don't really care about effect on the populace, just the effect on the 1% richest of the population. It is sad to see.

I would suggest the cops investigate health care companies so people don't feel like they have an obligation to do something.

I mean, doing their jobs is protecting the wealthy. They don't exist for any other reason.

Because America is not a functional democracy but rather an oligarchy driven by the will of the elite.

What is vote? We elect people, not policy. Then those people get purchased by companies, and they do whatever is best for the company.

Because we are powerless to change it.

The corporations have lobbied (bribed) both political parties so hard that both sides work for them.

Any attempt to change the voting system gets shot down because the people in power don't want to change the system, because it benefits them. Why make the game fair when it's rigged in your favor?

Half the country is brainwashed into thinking any social help or reform is socialism (which is pure evil! Helping others is evil!) and a trick from the inept party to try to gain political influence. And the inept party just fails to deliver on any sort of reform because they want to appeal to that brainwashed half of the country.

Any grass roots effort that makes any traction gets shot down by the establishment, usually by rileing up the brainwashed half.

We WANT the change. But even if we could get the brainwashed half to vote for it, the system is so rigged and broken even if we did vote it in they would veto it or change it in two years.

Not American, but curious as to why you don’t vote for polices that prevent the healthcare ripoff?

Because they aren't on the ballot.

A lot of people on the right have been duped by those taking advantage of them for profit, making them focus on the left somehow being evil through the targeting of identity politics. Many are just now waking up to the fact that the talking heads they trust have made their worth by dividing us.

It's all thanks to oligarchs and using their money to buy out policies from lawmakers while making their constituents stay angry elsewhere. Our whole system has been fucked for a while, unfortunately.

Somehow people were voting for the republicans to fix healthcare. Yes, it's true.

The second thing is that US legislators have about 40% yearly profits on their investments. So they are very incentivized to make things better for the owning class. Or at least not make it any worse.

The wealthy own everything. The media, the campaign funding, the concert venues, the restaurants, the farmland, the water, the houses, the offices, the railroads, the textbook publishers. Fucking everything. The only thing our government does well is print more money for the rich.

There are several (very simplified) factors:

• the parties in power won't fix voting so others can join in proportionally
• the parties in power are mostly guided by the wealthy (often via corporate influence), just with slightly different flavors
• many of our citizens are one or more of poorly educated, uninformed, radicalized, and selfish
• the wealthy tend to support policies that keep them wealthy and the electorate controllable

Healthcare was barely even discussed during the last election. Trump has no plans to improve it and Harris didn't campaign on it. We can't just directly vote for laws, we have to elect leaders that would write a bill and vote for it. And pretty much everyone in Congress is bought out by Big Pharma, which has more money than god so it buys elections.