dohboi wrote:en, I'm not sure I follow your logic: It's a democracy as long as people think it is?
dohboi wrote:...is there no global warming as long as people remain in denial about it??
dohboi wrote:People voted in the Soviet Union, and a candidate always won. So by your criterion you would consider it to have been a democracy, then??
dohboi wrote:economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy
If enough people really wanted to see big changes, we'd see them.
is symptomatic of voter dysfunction.
AGW hysteria and ignoring planetary resource limits?
I am well versed in the notion of corporate influence in governement, things like Citizen's United, etc... I do not, however, feel that the public have been coerced into this against their will as much as they are complicit.
If enough people really wanted to see big changes, we'd see them. Third parties, whatever. They keep doubling down on the two-party system and the status quo.
onlooker wrote:I would add one of our own Montequest, with a keen scientific mind and thus not open to crazy tinfoil, wrote a book about this elite influence and potent control. Or better yet look at our murdered President Kennedy who warned of the "Monolithic and Ruthless conspiracy" Sorry to go totally off topic just responding to a post.
“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 … even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.”
Ibon wrote:I think it is an immense waste of time frankly to be overly concerned with the current dysfunction and speculating on what conspiracies those in power may or may not be executing.
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