Source: Independent Institute
by Daniel B Klein
“A perennial concern about determination by simply popular vote is that it breeds a brand of politics that seeks to induce 51 percent of the population to support the party that seemingly supports them. The plainest way for a party to engender that support is to pay people to support it. Thus, the party seeks to take from the very wealthy few to distribute jobs, contracts, projects, and other material benefits to the 51 percent, who in turn scratch the party’s back. Such a transaction will grow a crude rhetoric to justify it.” (11/22/24)
https://blog.independent.org/2024/11/22/check-against-thralldom