Advertisers and Lobbyists

The relationship between democrats, lobbyists, and voters is identical to the relationship between Facebook, its advertisers, and its users. The point isn’t to serve voters. The point is exploit just enough that voters dont abandon the party: be a fraction less awful than the GOP.

I’ve said this before, as have others, but we are the product and not the customer. This is a concept as old as civilization. And much of the so called march of progress has not been improved civil rights. It has been the more effective concealment of our subjugation. If the bars of the cage are concealed, it can be hard to identify the cage. The Empire never stopped it’s oppression. It just got better public relations and flashier marketing.