Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.
Yeah basically if enough people have a shared interest that the other party can exploit for their gain, and it doesn’t conflict with their economic interests, you potentially have a shot. Usually the issues are raised from the top down in the management of the economic interests though, ie lobby groups and PACs. One reason why culture war issues are moralized and politicized so much now is because it doesn’t threaten their finances.
Oligarchy? Government by the few?
538 Members of Congress
9 Supreme Court Justices
1 President
Looks to me like more than a few.
The US has what, 300 million inhabitants? Yeah that is a few.
Literal oligarch here
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It’s a representative democracy.
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Then it would be a plutocracy.
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No, Oligarchy is when you have a small group or family, like the Bush’s for instance.
plutocracy can be any number but they are rich
Are you arguing that plutocracy is substantively better than oligarchy?
FFS
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The last 1% service I’ve seen is Trump’s tax bill give away. Hope you took time to complain about that.
LOL, if you think there isn’t a group much smaller than that pulling most of their strings.
Then you have the opportunity to change the process.
Instructions unclear, accidentally ate a billionaire 😚🤌
340,000,000 people represented by 548. No representation if your interest conflicts with their economic interests.
If I plugged the numbers right, that means we’re “represented” by the 0.00016%
Yeah basically if enough people have a shared interest that the other party can exploit for their gain, and it doesn’t conflict with their economic interests, you potentially have a shot. Usually the issues are raised from the top down in the management of the economic interests though, ie lobby groups and PACs. One reason why culture war issues are moralized and politicized so much now is because it doesn’t threaten their finances.
That is a few. Also they are controlled by a few.