&gt;This is not how negotiations work.<p>You mean it&#x27;s not how oligarchs want it to work. Proponents of unpopular policy proposals want to govern people, but they don&#x27;t want to have to explain themselves to the people they propose to govern.<p>&gt;You don&#x27;t make preliminary talks public.<p>Just because it doesn&#x27;t always happen, does not mean that it never happens, shouldn&#x27;t happen, or can&#x27;t happen.<p>&gt;Making the above process public will tie the negotiators hands.<p>Which is the point of democratic processes. It is exactly what people want. I&#x27;m not sure what they&#x27;re worried about anyway, in the US the proletariat has been convinced to go along with all manner of political and economic policy that goes against their best interests; they beg for more of it.