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4/16/2014 3:52pm
Your opinion doesn't matter and neither does your vote. America is now an oligarchy where the political power rests in the hands of an elite few.
Here's a snippet of the conclusion:
Read the study here
Here's a snippet of the conclusion:
What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule -- at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.
Read the study here
The entire scheme of government is set up to defend from the tyranny of the majority.
The power wielded by corporations and the mega - rich is a completely different, and just as dangerous, problem. ......
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People at all levels are majorly frustrated with Government.
A democratic republic, by it's very nature, is designed to represent the will of the majority.
Since a government is free to write, enact, change and repeal laws, including constitutional amendments, there is no way that you can say that you are ruled by a single document like your constitution. Especially if that document was written in way that allowed the people to change it as they see fit. You are ruled by the people who were elected by a majority of citizens who participated in the voting process (or in the case of your president, the electoral college).
I cases such as Prop 8, the bill of rights guarantees equality for all, so it usurps a poorly written and biased law. In most policy cases, constitutional and human rights issues have no bearing.
To simplify what the report indicates, the vast majority of political power rests in the hands of the wealthy elite. The next most powerful group is associations that represent business interests. Below that comes special interest groups formed by citizens, and lastly, represented as having almost no political power, is the will of the majority of individual citizens.
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