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Mostly because people don't care enough.

Lets say you are a stanch Democrat, a Republican candidate runs with Republican policies plus a plan to end forced arbitration. Do you vote for him? For most voters the answer appears to be no.

Small government conservatives vote for large government projects that benefit their donors and friends, on the other side a lot of talk about the minimum wage and socialized healthcare but none if it ever materializes when they have a majority. Then the next election comes and you vote for the same people who failed you the first time, because the other people are trying to kill toddlers and force schoolchildren to become transgender or are all secretly racists out to build death camps for gay people or some other insane claim fed to you by a corporate news network or comedy show that happens to be owned by someone who benefits from the status quo. Don't worry though, keep drinking Pepsi, you are part of the resistance TM brought to you by Viacom.

Why doesn't anything ever get fixed? We keep putting the people who failed back in charge. Nobody in Congress today should have a seat in the next election until something actually changes.




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