Are you arguing voters in a democracy are not even a little responsible for the outcomes of their vote?
replyOh, they're absolutely responsible and will suffer a fair amount of consequences for their votes. But the legislature should have stopped the bleeding a long time ago.
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reply> If snoopy starts issuing open hand-outs to the red baron (snoopy in a moustache)
replyYou mean like how President Trump just gave 10 billion USD of taxpayer money to a board operated by Private Citizen Trump?
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/trump-board-of-peace-firs...
I mean like that and dozens of other excellent examples that should have caused the legislature to remove him from office. Trump coin alone (including all the shady World Liberty Financial funding) should have been worth the boot and that happened on like day two of the administration.
replyThe legislature is made up of representatives voted in.
replyRepublicans who wanted to prevent Trump from doing this kind of shit were voted out.
This is what the voters want.
Yes and no. It's a mistake to look at political representation as a pure expression of voters' will.
replyGerrymandering keeps extreme politicians in office. Partisanship gets people to vote against their own interests. Media gravitates toward spectacle rather than substance, to the benefit of those that know how to use that; and social media in particular entrenches deeper into preconceived biases.
In short, manipulating voters is a profitable business. Electoral results are the output of that business, and voters are just the instrument.