{"id":7646,"date":"2021-04-04T22:14:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2021-04-04T22:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T03:15:02","slug":"inverse-of-citizens-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7646","title":{"rendered":"Inverse of Citizens United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representation in the federal government is not equitable &#8212; I&#8217;ve talked before about how some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senators and Reps represent a <em>lot<\/em> more people than others<\/a>. Citizens United farther eroded the influence individual citizens have on the government. But, this past week, I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if corporate influence might not force policies supported by a statistical majority that cannot gain enough of a majority in Congress or the Electoral College to have impact.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses don&#8217;t care what a thousand acres of land thing. Generally speaking, a company doesn&#8217;t consider 280k people in Wyoming as important as 18.6 million in Cali. So, while both groups of people have one Senator &#8230; a company looking at losing 18 million customers is a lot more apt to act than one looking at losing 280k customers. Now, obviously, a company would rather avoid conflict and keep both sets of customers. But &#8230; if the majority begins to consider inaction offensive? Corporate influence might force a more equitable position for the national majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representation in the federal government is not equitable &#8212; I&#8217;ve talked before about how some Senators and Reps represent a lot more people than others. Citizens United farther eroded the influence individual citizens have on the government. But, this past week, I&#8217;m beginning to wonder if corporate influence might not force policies supported by a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1325,1326,26],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-cancel-culture","tag-inequitable-representation","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7649,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions\/7649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}