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Stupid people still voting for the corrupt status quo... | The overwhelming number of congressional members only need their constituents to vote them into office. The rest of the time they are beholden to corporate lobbyists or other large donors who provide financial incentives. | image tagged in stupid people,still voting for the corrupt status quo | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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"The voting numbers of Congress show that we no longer have a representative democracy. Nor are we Republicans and Democrats. We are Nationalists and Globalists.

Based on their voting, the Globalist Party consists of 69 percent of the Senate and 65 percent of the House. Constituents, however, voted for 49 percent of the Senate and 51 percent of the House.

Had their representatives voted as their constituents wanted, Biden policies would have been stopped. The fact that these policies have not been stopped has not only disappointed but angered an increasing number of legitimate voters.

Why do these elected officials betray their constituents?

The answer lies in money.

On average, in-state contributions to House members amount to 60 percent of their totals and out-of-state contributions amount to 40 percent. In the Senate, on average, in-state contributions are 34 percent and out-of-state contributions are 66 percent.

Worse, only 11 of the 533 members of Congress receive the majority of their contributions from small donors while 522 get over 50 percent of their funding from big donors. One in ten members of Congress receive less than one percent of their contributions from small donors.

Worse still, of 533 Congressional members, the mean amount of contributions from big donors is 93 percent and only 7 percent from small donors.

According to James Gimpel and Freances Lee, large individual dona­tions from out-of-state are, not individual at all, but “instead extensions of the modern parties’ organizations into the electorate.”

In short, the overwhelming number of congressional members only need their constituents to vote them into office. The rest of the time these members are beholden to corporate lobbyists or other large donors who provide financial incentives to members."
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