[malcolmgreaves]

> rights of citizens to determine their own laws.

You meant to say "extremely wealthy citizens." The power vacuum that comes with less government is always filled-in by people with the most resources. And those sorts of people only see the non-wealthy as objects to be exploited for them to acquire even more wealth.

[kogus]

I refuse to be that cynical. All people can vote. Chevron was enacted in 1984. So the most progressive periods in US History occurred before it was enacted, when (according to you) a power vacuum was filled in by the people with the most resources.

Why didn't those super powerful vacuum-fillers carry the day in the Civil Rights Movement, or when marginal income tax rates were 90+%, or when the EPA was created? Because they don't have the power that everyone thinks they do (maybe even they think they have, themselves).