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Vote them out and elect who? Some other member from one of the two parties, who will continue to make decisions mostly for their rich donors? > Princeton Univ
by nico 2y ago
Vote them out and elect who?
Some other member from one of the two parties, who will continue to make decisions mostly for their rich donors?
> Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.
> One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.
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- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law Re-run that within voting jurisdictions. What that study largely seems to reference is that local representation is, in part, a divide and conquer mechanism.