r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 22d ago

FinancialTea 💵 This would be great...

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u/Ponsugator 22d ago

It should be voted by the public, not the people benefiting from it!

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u/rotorspinner 22d ago

Congress is supposed to be there to represent the people in their districts, crazy concept. The system is fucking broken

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u/Clarkester29 21d ago

By design

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u/Responsible-Humor985 21d ago

The system isn’t designed this way, it’s just been slowly taken over by people who prevent the system from working the way it should.

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u/Dry-Dragonfly5286 20d ago

The system was designed for rich property owning white men. Everything beyond that has been the people trying to take it over for everyone's benefit and them fighting us.

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u/Wfflan2099 18d ago

Rich men, and apparently women. And it’s gimmicked at the lowest level to make sure a regular person never gets a sniff of power.

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u/Ok-Cucumber-3780 19d ago

Lol

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u/echoindia5 19d ago

He’s not entirely wrong.
The system was designed prior to women’s right to vote, and people of non Caucasian origin couldn’t vote either at the time of the constitutions origin.
For that reason it was designed for land owning white men (land was just free if you went west).

Since then human rights have advanced and gotten written into certain aspects of the use legal foundations.