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> And is it really rich people lobbying for more surveillance and resisting decriminalization of drugs, or is it my mother?

While your mother may be voting for such policies, she is likely not lobbying for them (or writing them). The companies and high net worth individuals who have a financial stake in these policies are the ones doing that.

Every piece of legislation that exists benefits a rich person in some way.



If voters oppose, say, drug decriminalization,[1] who cares if rich people who might benefit from the drug war lobby to keep the existing laws?

[1] Which they do by a huge margin, with the sole exception of marijuana: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/drug-legalization-p....




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