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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Rightly or wrongly, people don't think government is on their side. It's not even a partisan thing, you'll often hear people say "Washington is broken"
Everything from immigration, to outsourcing jobs to gun control, congress can't pass anything. The politicians are controlled by lobbyists, not by the people.
If you're an American (regardless of color) whose job got outsourced and have been unemployed for 2 years, how is government working for you?
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And yet everyone who loves to blab about "Washington is broken" doesn't actually really think that at all considering Congress has had, pretty much forever, a 90% incumbent winner rate. People hate other people's congresspeople, but view their own as being fine. Even this election cycle, the alleged cycle of being "anti-establishment", I think I saw there were 209 primaries held so far, and in 205 of them the incumbent candidate won.
People just are easy to prey on emotionally. That's been the GOP calling card for years, and it was the calling card of the Leave side. People are willing to go against their own interest if you can create a sense of fear in them about irrelevant, emotionally based issues. That and the stupidest ####ing trend in recent history, politics by meme'ing. That's scarily and sadly how many get their "facts".