re: Princeton study: U.S. is an oligarchy

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Researchers concluded that US government policies rarely align with the the preferences of the majority of Americans, but do favour special interests and lobbying organizations: "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 US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."


Id say that is pretty spot on.

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Bet you a thousand bucks the researches in this study don't count the fact the ACA passed despite majority opposition as an example of legislation that doesn't benefit the people. I'm speaking in terms of if you were just chilling talking to the dudes that did it.