Re:Will the US experience a violent upheaval in 2020? (2012)
by linspace on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:27AM
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The difference between 80% and 50% is very significant but if you want a positive angle:
1. Average voters still pass laws at a significant rate 2. An elite university publishes the study
It's very far from perfection but I don't think it's an oligarchy. There is always going to be a bias in favor of the rich. That's what money is for.
Princeton already proved America is an oligarchy with a paper that was released a few years back, showing that when the rich wanted a certain policy implemented, it was passed into law at any almost 80% rate, compared with the "average voter" wanting a policy made into law at about a 50% rate.
Here's that article:
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...
Now here's what's super telling, or at least should be... if you Google "princeton oligarchy study america" or some combination, the very first fucking result you'll find will be a Vox article saying its wrong. Because the ultra-rich need to perpetuate the myth that your voice matters. Google needs you to be stupid enough to believe that.