Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) called out one-time ally Donald Trump for abandoning the core promises behind his “Make America Great Again” movement.
“MAGA is, I think people are realizing, it was all a lie,” she told YouTube host Kim Iversen. “It was a big lie for the people.”
The Trump administration, she said, is all about serving “big, big donors,” including foreign countries and large corporations, with many funneling cash to Trump’s PACs and pet projects such as his White House ballroom to win favor.
people behave according to incentives that reward certain behaviors, and punish others.
i used to work in policy. good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don’t get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met… were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a ‘good’ politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.
there are some cases where that isn’t true, of course. but usually limited to smaller districts/states with more homogeneous populations
I feel like this effect could be ameliorated by restricting political advertising to direct, verified facts only.
@Kiernian @TubularTittyFrog Kiernian, sometimes a particular post sits in your brain without digesting properly. Yours is one of those for me.
“good policy gets you voted out …” damn, laying an egg like that can’t be allowed to sit there unexplained!
Your comment is the same " … restricting political advertising …"
The voters are supposed to do that! When a candidate for office says something like “free daycare, free bus transportation” “I’ll be your retribution”, “you’ll never have to vote again” the voter is supposed to think and ask the questions, not just cheer them on!
If the voters are incapable, democracy is not dead, like Fascism it should never be permitted!