It’s pretty much a truism that those who have bucketloads of money are going to be able to get what they want, far more times than not, than those who clearly outnumber them but have not the resources or the connections to have their fair say. When we look at today’s modern democracies, it has to be admitted that definitely the richer are getting ever richer, and because this is true, it thus signifies that those who could use the money or who need the money have far less money that is going to come their way. Further to the point, most people can’t get their heads around what a billion dollars is, let alone billions upon billions of dollars, so that those who overly concentrate on personal wealth and its ability to get its way, without taking into consideration the even more massive sums of corporate wealth, do not truly know what they are up against, because combined they rule the roost.
In politics it has to be recognized that most politicians in order to be competitive need both money as well as connections, and because of that, no matter how elegant and charismatic that a given politician might be, they are in the vast majority of cases, compromised by the fact that those that are supported by concentrated money along with the necessary connections, must first pay back those that have put them in that position of power, so that, in actuality, those that are our public leaders have a debt that first must be paid back and that they must answer to, which is why, the changes that so many citizens desire, aspire for, and should have, never appears to occur, and when it does occur, it happens many years later, and only because those that rule, recognize that civic unrest isn’t healthy for countries or their stability, so of.
One would think that one person, one vote, which is what democracies represent, would clearly mean that the people would not only elect those who would best serve their purposes, but also would mean that the legislation so being discussed and subsequently passed would be in conformance with the people’s wishes. Yet, this isn’t true, and even when it appears to be true, behind the scenes of that legislation so having been passed, will oftentimes be found to have been compromised by those that are supposed to regulate and oversee such, but have been effectively “captured” by corporate behemoths, and/or the judicial decisions which have subsequently been rendered that consistently favor the positions of those that have that money power.
It has got to be remembered that those that have money, personal as well as corporate, are the very same that are not only extremely reluctant to give up any of that money without a corresponding benefit, but rather have what appears to them to be a duty to get even more of it, which means, fair or foul, they are going to get things done, and those of the general public are subsequently left thereof with nothing much more than the proverbial crumbs from their master’s table.