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schubidubidubatoday at 4:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's comforting to believe that actual voters have that kind of political influence over these things, but really it's about a million little talls, primarily driven by lobbyists commanded by big companies


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cm2012today at 5:10 PM

You are about 20 years out of date. Modern politicians get almost all of their funding from small donations, in other words, from passionate partisans who care about culture war issues.

danlugo92today at 5:02 PM

People still in bubbles in the big 2026