Wow. This guy is massively confused. First he quotes this conclusion: “contrary to what decades of political science research might lead you to believe, ordi

Wow. This guy is massively confused. First he quotes this conclusion: “contrary to what decades of political science research might lead you to believe, ordinary citizens have virtually no influence over what their government does in the United States.” Then for his own proofs of that he first lists the abject failure of the top down, elite gun control movement since 1994 in the face of grassroots opposition (and often opposition to the eeeevil NRA; e.g. that 1994 "assault weapons" law was the first Federal gun control measure to pass without the NRA's OK). For example, in 1986 less than a handful of states were concealed carry "shall issue" or better (I'm not sure it was more than Vermont, the only state to never restrict the bearing of arms, and Washington state, but lately I've been told Indiana had a good regime), them starting with Florida in 1987 it's swept the nation, ending with Wisconsin and Iowa in 2011, leaving around 8 states. Since then the courts, following Heller and McDonald, which wouldn't have happened without (indirect) gun owner support, have forced it on Illinois and California and Hawaii are in the process (resulting in a total of 90% (!) of the population), leaving only a few benighted northeastern states and Maryland. This, and abject failure of post-1994 Federal gun control measures, the net gain in gun laws post-Sandy Hook, etc. etc. etc., is one of the most significant modern political developments, but he scores it as "corruption". You should realize you're in deep trouble when the only significant remaining anti-gun organization is billionaire Bloomberg's (not counting Josh Sugerman's VPC think tank) ... and he just had to do a refresh/relaunch of it. Anyway, like gun control, I believe net neutrality abuses will result in productive political counter-reactions if and when they get bad enough that enough citizens get sufficiently upset. At which point the the telcos and cable companies will wonder what hit them.