“Our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts,”
— now there’s some shocking news. this ran a couple years ago, but it’s not like anything is any better now. time to fix this folks. ~jg
#EndTheAmericanOligarchy
From the Dept. of Academics Confirming Something You Already Suspected comes a new study concluding that rich people and organizations representing business interests have a powerful grip on U.S. government policy. After examining differences in public opinion across income groups on a wide variety of issues, the political scientists Martin Gilens, of Princeton, and Benjamin Page, of Northwestern, found that the preferences of rich people had a much bigger impact on subsequent policy decisions than the views of middle-income and poor Americans. Indeed, the opinions of lower-income groups, and the interest groups that represent them, appear to have little or no independent impact on policy. http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/is-america-an-oligarchy A new study says that rich people and organizations representing business interests have a powerful grip on U.S. government policy.
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