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minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·10 days agoAmerica isn’t a democracy any more … I think it stopped acting like a democracy for a while now … probably much longer than everyone likes to think. It’s a Plutocracy … ‘a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.’
minus-squarethemaninblack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-210 days agoLink to the Princeton study that claims the average person has little to no influence on policymaking: https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc/mode/1up
America isn’t a democracy any more … I think it stopped acting like a democracy for a while now … probably much longer than everyone likes to think.
It’s a Plutocracy … ‘a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.’
Link to the Princeton study that claims the average person has little to no influence on policymaking: https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc/mode/1up