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It seems that these are symptoms of representation democracy. People elect someone to make decisions in their best interest and then they make decisions for their own interest because its so easy to hide them. There is really no solution to this except people being directly in charge and be able to block any bill they collectively wish. Representational democracy was the only economically viable option when voting was expensive but its no longer the case, at least technically. A simple direct democracy would be simply to have monthly electronic voting directly by people on whatever congress passed to either let it go through or block.