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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

They're controlled in the sense that they represent class interests that are opposed to those of their nominal constituency. By paying some lip service to vaguely progressive policies, they capture roughly half of the voters in a system built to exclude any real working-class political representation.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    Controller by nothing and accountable to no one is a weird definition of controlled.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What do you mean? They are accountable to their class collaborators. They benefit from all sorts of "campaign contributions", corrupt dealings, lobbying and investments. For sure some of them have the additional guarantee of epstein-variety blackmail.

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