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Is the Bureaucracy Submerged by Special Interest Groups?
Populism is essentially what you call democracy, he says. It's hard to disentangle special interest groups and the state from each other, writes Obama. Voters are not even a relevant part of the process: they're just an "exploitable resource" He adds that democracy isn't the ultimate or most relevant model; it's a compromise we accept under certain terms.