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do people vote for politicians, who promise them they will get the rich, make them pay their fair share.
i believe what Madison says if true, those who have no stake, will use their vote for injustice, maybe not everyone, but it is natural for man to look at another man and be envious.
The right of suffrage is a fundamental Article in Republican Constitutions. The regulation of it is, at the same time, a task of peculiar delicacy. Allow the right exclusively to property, and the rights of persons may be oppressed. The feudal polity alone sufficiently proves it. Extend it equally to all, and the rights of property or the claims of justice may be overruled by a majority without property, or interested in measures of injustice. Of this abundant proof is afforded by other popular Govts. and is not without examples in our own, particularly in the laws impairing the obligation of contracts.
Some may, most people, particularly those who are of the "lower" classes don't. They care, for the most part about politicians who are going to help them take care of their families, not "make them rich" or those politicians who will keep their values, whether it is being for or against same sex marriage, and/or keeping foreigners out or helping foreigners make it into this country or something in between, and/or abortion, and/or military, and/or education, and/or the environment, and/or guns/gun control, or so many other things. Most people care about much more than just becoming rich, particularly if they are at the bottom of the totem pole. I believe those at the top are much more concerned about staying rich or getting richer than those at the bottom are about becoming rich.