faux democracy, no democracy

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/voting-rights-democracy-democrats-corporate-donors-politics

All of that comes together to create a “democracy” in name but not necessarily in practice — a country where the “preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically nonsignificant impact upon public policy,” as Princeton researchers concluded:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B/S1537592714001595a.pdf/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens.pdf

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Yes, it’s too unequal.

But it’s also just . . . too big.