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Origanalist
08-12-2014, 10:06 PM
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A startling new political science study concludes that corporate interests and mega wealthy individuals control U.S. policy to such a degree that "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy."

The startling study, titled "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens," is slated to appear in an upcoming issue of Perspectives on Politics and was authored by Princeton University Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Professor Benjamin Page. An early draft can be found here.

Noted American University Historian Allan J. Lichtman, who highlighted the piece in a Tuesday article published in The Hill, calls Gilens and Page's research "shattering" and says their scholarship "should be a loud wake-up call to the vast majority of Americans who are bypassed by their government."

The statistical research looked at public attitudes on nearly 1,800 policy issues and determined that government almost always ignores the opinions of average citizens and adopts the policy preferences of monied business interests when shaping the contours of U.S. laws.

the shocking revelations continue at...http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/12/Study-You-Have-Near-Zero-Impact-on-U-S-Policy

Origanalist
08-12-2014, 10:07 PM
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AuH20
08-12-2014, 10:11 PM
So you're telling me that Puffy wasn't exactly being truthful?

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CCTelander
08-12-2014, 10:17 PM
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Or not.

Anyone with two functioning brain cells ought to be able to look at the world around them and easily come to exactly this conclusion without any formal study. But hey, another round of voting and a few strongly worded letters will fix everything right up.

HOLLYWOOD
08-12-2014, 10:17 PM
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AuH20
08-12-2014, 10:21 PM
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.

Or not.

Anyone with two functioning brain cells ought to be able to look at the world around them and easily come to exactly this conclusion without any formal study. But hey, another round of voting and a few strongly worded letters will fix everything right up.

Consent of the governed is a mere formality. Behind the scenes is where the real policies are hammered out.

presence
08-12-2014, 10:24 PM
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

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For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us...

Anti Federalist
08-12-2014, 10:25 PM
God damn it, I'm writing a SWLOD right now.

Root
08-12-2014, 10:27 PM
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CCTelander
08-12-2014, 10:28 PM
God damn it, I'm writing a SWLOD right now.


Me too. And registering to vote in the morning. By god, we'll fix this situation right up in no time flat!

Anti Federalist
08-12-2014, 10:30 PM
And we wonder why people riot when cops shoot unarmed innocent people in the back 10 times...

aGameOfThrones
08-12-2014, 10:31 PM
God damn it, I'm writing a SWLOD right now.

I'm so mad that I may write 2 SWLOD.

CCTelander
08-12-2014, 10:35 PM
I'm so mad that I may write 2 SWLOD.


Bet you can't write just one!

Origanalist
08-12-2014, 10:37 PM
I'm so mad that I may write 2 SWLOD.

That'll really get their attention. I know! Let's start a petition!

thoughtomator
08-12-2014, 10:39 PM
maybe Obama figured out that he too has near-zero impact on policy, which is why he's vacationing and golfing instead...

aGameOfThrones
08-12-2014, 10:39 PM
Bet you can't write just one!


I blame public schools.

Todd
08-13-2014, 08:55 AM
Had someone tell me at work that..... "Well it is still only NEAR zero, and isn't Zero". :rolleyes:

Origanalist
08-13-2014, 09:03 AM
Had someone tell me at work that..... "Well it is still only NEAR zero, and isn't Zero". :rolleyes:

Zero would be really bad.

rp08orbust
08-13-2014, 09:34 AM
Gotta keep trying to export democracy at gunpoint--it's bound to work somewhere!

Danke
08-13-2014, 09:38 AM
If voting mattered, it would be illegal.

Philhelm
08-13-2014, 09:44 AM
And we wonder why people riot when cops shoot unarmed innocent people in the back 10 times...

When are people going to really riot? For fuck's sake, the Ferguson folks should have gathered every able-bodied young man and stormed the police station, showing the filthy pigs inside no quarter. That would have been a sight to see.

Slave Mentality
08-13-2014, 10:31 AM
I am not even a cat person guys I promise.

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klamath
08-13-2014, 10:39 AM
Duh.. Yeaw near zero equals 1/360,000,000th of a effect on US policy. Funny how people think that their vote should be the same as an emperor of the world.

ZENemy
08-13-2014, 10:47 AM
lol but that wont stop people from voting and demanding a slightly nicer master to enforce their ways unto others they disagree with.

Todd
08-19-2014, 12:46 PM
bump.

muh_roads
08-19-2014, 01:13 PM
Not true.

Cryptocurrency will end the petrodollar.

Join the revolution. Support the end of gov't currency controls across the globe and transacting how you wish.

Deborah K
08-19-2014, 01:51 PM
maybe Obama figured out that he too has near-zero impact on policy, which is why he's vacationing and golfing instead...

I'm sure he, like others, has basically been told: "We have a loaded gun in this hand, and a pampered, protected lifestyle for the rest of your days in this one. Choose."