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Lobbyists have been successful convincing you of something in their paymasters interest and not at all in yours.


I despise the current system, but arguments like this do a lot of damage to the reform cause.

Aside from the incredible arrogance of assuming that GP is just so much stupider and more manipulable than you, it's also factually wrong in enough cases that it instantly discredits you. For example, many people who are upper-middle-class and above are better off in the current system.




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