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by dsfyu404ed 1193 days ago
Exactly.

They don't care if they screw the average joe.

They care about winning political brownie points from various voting blocks.

The policies and actions that win those points just so happens to screw the average joe.

The only logical course of action given those constraints and absent of any morals is...

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> don't care if they screw the average Joe

Who don't vote. Democracy incentives transferring resources from non voters to voters.