Did you vote from 2004-2008? If so, you had your “say”. The USA is a representative democracy. If you elected idiots unable to do the job it’s on the royal “you”.
There's a whole generation of people who were too young to vote in those elections who have to live in this 'bail out' world. I'm 34 and I couldn't vote in 2004. 2008 was my first presidential election. We definitely didn't get a say and a lot of us don't agree with our elders.
The good thing is you’re old enough now, so let’s see if you vote to continue or end this. We’ll definitely have another 2008 again, potentially in the next decade or 2, as the current administration is setting that up now with special mortgage rules for those with good credit to help secure mortgages from those with bad credit.
There is no legal technicality in which Trump won. He received a huge amount of votes, there's no denying that, but voter fraud on any meaningful scale was never proven after they looked under every rock they could find. Beyond that, the electoral college and Congress finalize election results and they don't appear to have breached any protocols.
Claiming that casting one view in one election means that we all made the specific decision to deem some banks as too big to fail is a bastardization of how or system works to begin with.
If I candidates I voted for lost, I had a chance to partake in democracy but how did I actually have a say in a decision made by someone else?
And if the entire question of banks too big to fail want even a talking point in 2004, how was I voting on that?
For me to have a say, at a minimum my elected representatives would have had to engage with his constituents on the new issue. Even better we could handle those situations more like the Swiss, putting it to a ballot vote.
In no way is casting a vote when effectively given a choice between two major part candidates equivalent to ne having any day in how the government makes a fundamental decision to change the banking world.
Banks being too big to fail is a bit common sense unfortunately. We cannot let our financial infrastructure implode as the damage will be much more severe than some inflation.
> And if the entire question of banks too big to fail want even a talking point in 2004, how was I voting on that?
The question is who caused them to fail, and did you vote for anybody that had anything to do with it? This event started in 1994 and didn’t really end until near 2012. You probably voted a few times in that timeframe.
You could have written a letter to your representative that expressed that you'd vote for them if they let the big banks fail, even if that ends up causing a Great Depression 2.0 that ends the dollar's global supremacy that we all take for granted. Of course, 99.9% of voters aren't going to express the same view.
