anon, we lost a long time ago. elections are held to keep up the pretense for the proles, but they dont mean anything. from the study in picrel > multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on us government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. > when a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised 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. weve become an oligarchy with show elections while the same people control both parties behind the scenes in a heads i win tails you lose setup.
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