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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

That's basically how it already is in the US.

While poor people officially have the right to vote, deliberate voter suppression makes it difficult to impossible for tens of millions of them and easy for anyone living in a sparsely populated, rich, and overwhelmingly white area, even letting some of them vote in country clubs.

Then even if they DO manage to vote, it's largely symbolic since corruption in the form of several kinds of legal bribes is the norm rather than the exception, leading to policies favoring the rich to the point of almost disenfranchising all poor people and de facto disenfranchisement of everyone whose policy positions are to the left of "free market" myths.

Tl;Dr: it's a de facto oligarchic kakistocracy ruled by rich people through pet politicians who are themselves much richer on average than the general population.