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No taxation without representation.
It wasn't just taxes. It was taxes that were being taken out of their community that they had no say in.
Texas gets more representation in our government than any other state not named California.
And you know where Texas money goes? 60% goes back to Texas. The rest goes to Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, New Mexico, and Kentucky.
Do you actually believe you have any say in what your taxes are allocated to now? Do you think your Representatives and Senators don't nod and smile, then do whatever the fuck they want with our tax money?
Yes, I do. Not much, but yes.
I think if we were able to move another 25% of the electorate towards public healthcare that we'd get it. I think votes are more powerful than money in our politics; the issue is that people allow their votes to be indirectly and cheaply bought with money, largely through political advertising and media propaganda.
I also think 60 years ago that most politicians were in it for the good of the country, with differing opinions of what that means and how to get there. Now too many are in it only for themselves.
Politicians have always said disingenuous things with the idea that the ends justify the means (for example being religious). Many of these newer politicians, particularly from one party, have lost the last of that good faith and don't even care about the ends anymore.
You are painfully naive, or you're a "both sides" provocateur. There are maybe 10 to 15 politicans, total, in Congress who aren't solely there to enrich themselves by groveling before corporations and billionaires, and none of them are Republicans.
We are going to live to see the end of democracy in the US. There is a very high probability of a second civil war. If I could afford to move to Canada, or Scandinavia, I'd leave tomorrow.