Clearly Racer X NZ lacks the intelligence to understand what the terms interest groups, special interests, and resource bias mean. The average American can't do jack shit. Interest groups control the mass media with their funding. They can control what their targets listen to and everyone knows visual trumps textual, vocal, and FACTUAL information. As long as you put some pictures on the screen that move people they will believe whatever you ****ing say.
Interests groups also have the advantage of being able to directly lobby congress and that increasingly limits the power of the people to control policy making. Furthermore policy-making is dictated by the congressmen and not their constituency because lord knows that a congressman can never make all of their constituency happy, so all they care about is making the plurality happy.
So. What can we do? Well, obviously the political structure we have allows for us to vote the rascals out. But after what? 4, 6 years. Yeah that's a long time now. Remember that back when all of this was put together four years was a decent amount of time. It took letters 3 months to go across the country and they had to walk hill in snow BOTH ways to school. So, in four years today a president/congressman can do a lot more damage than they once could.
Also, today the resource bias for the majority of Americans (those living in cities mostly and in ghettoes) only really have two resources.
1) their vote
and 2) the ability to campaign
that being said both of those take time, and time is the most valuable resource out their. Rich people have the advantage in they have expendable amount of time and also the money to support a campaign.
That being said, the less wealthy can do nothing. You cannot blame Americans that our government is messed up, you can only blame the people who influence those policies and candidates decisions.
In this case, we should just blame britain because if they weren't utter bellends and just took the tax off of tea we wouldn't have needed to make a different nation anyways.
Thank you!