For example, the Veterans Association is an interest group that protects the interests of military personnel.
There are also some retired special forces groups to safeguard the interests of special forces.
The Federation of Industry and Commerce is to safeguard the interests of some workers' groups.
There are also various gun clubs to safeguard the interests of owning guns.
There are also some animal associations that defend their rights about animals.
And gay organizations,
Defend the rights and interests of homosexuals,
There are also religious groups to safeguard religious interests and so on.
There are feminists and pacifists who defend women's rights and equality.
Too much, too much.
Another point that China often misleads is that the United States represents the interests of the big chaebol, which is completely caused by a misinterpretation. The existence of strong trade unions and the protection of human rights in the United States balance some unfair situations between enterprises and workers, making workers (employees) and chaebol (enterprises) become an interdependent cooperative relationship. Enterprises use employees' labor to create value for themselves, and employees use the platform of enterprises to earn income through labor. When the enterprise develops well, the wages and benefits of workers will be improved, and the scale of the enterprise will be expanded, which will solve the employment of a large number of people. So many times, enterprises and workers (that is, ordinary people) are the same. For example, GM is a very large-scale enterprise with a large number of employees, so once it goes bankrupt, it will cause a large number of workers to lose their jobs, and it will also affect related small enterprises (for example, some parts factories also employ workers below), so a total of 2.5 million people will lose their jobs and millions of people's income will be reduced. This is a huge number, so the US government's capital injection into GM is actually for the benefit of these people in the United States.
The same is true of large financial institutions. Most Americans generally spend some money on financial investments such as stocks, bonds and futures trading. Therefore, the financial crisis and the crisis of various financial institutions in the United States will harm the interests of a large number of Americans. Therefore, the government should try to save the situation, but there are still some big banks that have no hope of saving it. The U.S. government did not take rescue measures to bankrupt it (indeed, there is no hope of rescue, such as CITGroupInc, Lehman Brothers, the largest commercial bank). This is a financial crisis, but the income of a large number of Americans has been affected, the unemployment rate has also risen sharply, and the living standard has declined. It can also be seen that the interests of the American people are also linked to financial companies.
In short, the American people form or support various interest groups according to their own interests to safeguard their own interests. The president wants to balance the various interests. If the balance is good, he will be re-elected, if not, he will step down.
Because the American people have votes, whoever is dissatisfied with them will lose the next election. Don't you see that opinion polls appear regularly in America? Once the index of opinion polls is low, the president will quickly change some policies, win public opinion and balance the interests of all kinds of people.