“Adequately explained” does a lot of heavy lifting in Hanlon’s Razor, and it’s supposed to. It’s adequate to assume that the few people who always break with the GOP are on the take, and the ones who aren’t doing anything about it are just incompetent. Sure, the oligarchy is buying up whoever they need, but they don’t want to waste money on directly buying a politician if they can just Citizens-United their useful idiots into office.
Assuming malice in even 51%–while possible, sure–I just don’t think is necessary.
“Adequately explained” does a lot of heavy lifting in Hanlon’s Razor, and it’s supposed to. It’s adequate to assume that the few people who always break with the GOP are on the take, and the ones who aren’t doing anything about it are just incompetent. Sure, the oligarchy is buying up whoever they need, but they don’t want to waste money on directly buying a politician if they can just Citizens-United their useful idiots into office.
Assuming malice in even 51%–while possible, sure–I just don’t think is necessary.