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A Boring Dystopia

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Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. (act.represent.us)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

careful lol, it’s 10 years old. sep 18, 2014. not sure if that was a typo or an exaggeration but it is technically a mistruth.

https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Thank you for the precise info.

I was being hyperbolic no doubt. But point still stands tho lol