Myth- All politicians care about is pleasing their campaign donors?

Myth- All politicians care about is pleasing their campaign donors?

Matthew Jones (Political Science Instructor) gives expert video advice on: Myth- A small group of powerful families run the US Government?; Myth- Big business runs our government?; Myth- Big business is against environmental legislation? and more...

I know people aren't going to believe this, but politicians, a lot of times, want to make good policy, and sometimes what business wants isn't good policy. Political scientists have shown case and case and case of deregulation of the airline industries, for example, is a big one, where business and labor unions were both against deregulation of the airline industries, yet because it was such a powerful idea, in terms of being a good idea, it went forward anyway. Politicians didn't take business or labor's advice, and they went with the idea that sounded like it was a good idea to them.