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In reply to the discussion: I'm now completely done being amazed. [View all]Laelth
(32,017 posts)In poll after poll, the American people have shown a preference for liberal policy on nearly all economic issues and on most social issues. Except on the issue of guns, I'd say most Americans are fairly liberal. On the other hand, the powers that be are, on balance, quite conservative on economic issues, and because they have the power and pull the strings of government, policy in the United States is very conservative on economic issues as well. Our leaders don't seem to care what the people really think.
It is not you who are out of step, it is TPTB (or the American political caste or the 1% or whatever you prefer to call them). It is they who are out of step with America. Sadly, they could care less what we think. There is very little that people or ordinary means can do to hinder them.
-Laelth