<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>vpmpaul</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re not wrong.  A Princeton study found the average voters have almost no impact on policy anymore. However corporations have taken over that position of influence.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;mgilens&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;scholar.princeton.edu&amp;#x2F;sites&amp;#x2F;default&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;mgilens&amp;#x2F;fi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I personally believe it is because politicians have to listen to voter blocks.  Since American families and homeowners have fallen to record lows they have no consistent voter base from individuals anymore.  Homeowners and Familiy&amp;#x27;s used to be the two biggest voting blocks.  They no longer are; businesses are the only voters that will be guaranteed to stick around until the next election.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>&amp;quot;Write your representative&amp;quot; is the standard response in the US too, and I&amp;#x27;m honestly done with it. I&amp;#x27;ve written many, many letters to senators. I&amp;#x27;ve placed phone calls. I&amp;#x27;ve donated to candidates I support. I&amp;#x27;ve taken a day off work to attend what was supposed to be a town hall but that ended up just being propaganda and thinly veiled hints at donating to related election campaigns, with so little time for public comment that I never got a word in.&lt;p&gt;And yet I&amp;#x27;ve only ever received token replies and seen zero change. No one I ever really wanted to vote in to a major seat has won. And Congress really can&amp;#x27;t see what&amp;#x27;s wrong with the Equifax breach on their own?&lt;p&gt;Fuck all of them. I&amp;#x27;ve given up on our political system maintaining much more than panem et circenses.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>Did you write to your MP?&lt;p&gt;Did you meet with them?&lt;p&gt;These things only get fixed when people speak up.&lt;p&gt;I met with my MP over the weaponization of autonomous systems. I&amp;#x27;ve put a ton of work into understanding where all this is headed. I spoke up[0] at the hearing on electoral reform about the cybersecurity risks of computerized elections, but I&amp;#x27;m only one man. I&amp;#x27;ve been able to get some things through, like pressuring the Liberal Government to put up more resources[1] but political will lags public outcry. If you want something changed you can&amp;#x27;t just complain online in your little bubble.&lt;p&gt;[0] I was one of only two people that spoke up about it and it was added to the final report. The world is changeable. What it takes is showing up and pushing hard.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbc.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-security-1.4547685&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbc.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-securi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>the_unknown</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m most disappointed in the Canadian gov&amp;#x27;t and their lack of action.  This would have been the perfect opportunity to mandate change - We don&amp;#x27;t have to send data on all of our people and their credit history to this American company.  Or at least without actual legislation and rules around governance, security, and actual penalties for breaches.&lt;p&gt;Instead we let them get away with - no more than a handful of Canadians were affected - followed by - oops, yup lots of Canadians - followed by - holy heck, how many Canadians are there way up there?&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t need to go along with this.  Yet it never seems to get better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/08/equifax-one-year-later-unscathed/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>3pt14159</author><text>I deeply understand your frustration. It takes a lot of work even here in Canada to get political will to take proactive action.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s only harder in the US. You guys have ten times the people per representative which means political victory is governed by opinion polling and, unfortunately, monied advertising. Citizens United made it ten times worse.&lt;p&gt;From my vantage point in Toronto, it looks like action towards fixing the political system is the top priority right now. So many things are wrong that it&amp;#x27;s hard to figure out where to even start.&lt;p&gt;There will be a breaking point though. As demographics continue to change if the GOP continues to win despite losing the popular vote I can see some sort of general protest or riot forming.</text><parent_chain><item><author>TallGuyShort</author><text>&amp;quot;Write your representative&amp;quot; is the standard response in the US too, and I&amp;#x27;m honestly done with it. I&amp;#x27;ve written many, many letters to senators. I&amp;#x27;ve placed phone calls. I&amp;#x27;ve donated to candidates I support. I&amp;#x27;ve taken a day off work to attend what was supposed to be a town hall but that ended up just being propaganda and thinly veiled hints at donating to related election campaigns, with so little time for public comment that I never got a word in.&lt;p&gt;And yet I&amp;#x27;ve only ever received token replies and seen zero change. No one I ever really wanted to vote in to a major seat has won. And Congress really can&amp;#x27;t see what&amp;#x27;s wrong with the Equifax breach on their own?&lt;p&gt;Fuck all of them. I&amp;#x27;ve given up on our political system maintaining much more than panem et circenses.</text></item><item><author>3pt14159</author><text>Did you write to your MP?&lt;p&gt;Did you meet with them?&lt;p&gt;These things only get fixed when people speak up.&lt;p&gt;I met with my MP over the weaponization of autonomous systems. I&amp;#x27;ve put a ton of work into understanding where all this is headed. I spoke up[0] at the hearing on electoral reform about the cybersecurity risks of computerized elections, but I&amp;#x27;m only one man. I&amp;#x27;ve been able to get some things through, like pressuring the Liberal Government to put up more resources[1] but political will lags public outcry. If you want something changed you can&amp;#x27;t just complain online in your little bubble.&lt;p&gt;[0] I was one of only two people that spoke up about it and it was added to the final report. The world is changeable. What it takes is showing up and pushing hard.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbc.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-security-1.4547685&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbc.ca&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;budget-billion-cyber-securi...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>the_unknown</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m most disappointed in the Canadian gov&amp;#x27;t and their lack of action.  This would have been the perfect opportunity to mandate change - We don&amp;#x27;t have to send data on all of our people and their credit history to this American company.  Or at least without actual legislation and rules around governance, security, and actual penalties for breaches.&lt;p&gt;Instead we let them get away with - no more than a handful of Canadians were affected - followed by - oops, yup lots of Canadians - followed by - holy heck, how many Canadians are there way up there?&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t need to go along with this.  Yet it never seems to get better.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>A year later, Equifax has faced little fallout from losing data</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/08/equifax-one-year-later-unscathed/</url></story>