Chapter 2785
A death without the slightest value—that was Lin Qi's assessment of the union's and the union capitalists' final protest.
In fact, now that things had reached this point, whether the people protested or marched no longer mattered.
Because the Federation's top rule-makers had already taken back the power they had granted the people.
And most people still didn't know it!
This was a very interesting and complicated outcome. Many people believed that the power in politicians' hands came from the people—
Look, we needed to elect politicians who possessed the art of ruling and could take good care of this country and its people, letting them wield and exercise power on the people's behalf.
This was the idea that the Federation's citizens had been indoctrinated with all along: power came from the people, from the people's votes and elections.
But in reality, power in the Federation had never truly been in the hands of ordinary people. Let's start from the lowest level.
The capitalists manipulated the unaligned votes at the bottom—the voters who had no political stance of their own—and obtained more votes through vote-buying.
As for voters with clear political stances, they influenced them through party activities.
For example, before a general election, a party office in a certain community or city would organize all kinds of social activities to tell these firmly committed voters whom they should vote for.
But in reality, the people who could truly control the outcome were often not the voters clutching their ballots and lining up in the cold wind, waiting to contribute their enthusiasm to this damned country!
They were the masters sitting in Congress, the political forces hiding behind the scenes! Conner might not have won. Judging by the voters' election preferences, he had been in great danger.
But