Godric@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 7 days agoA month before an election!? BlooMAGA, amirite???locklemmy.worldimagemessage-square871linkfedilinkarrow-up11.02Karrow-down1167
arrow-up1853arrow-down1imageA month before an election!? BlooMAGA, amirite???locklemmy.worldGodric@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square871linkfedilink
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 days agoIt’s not people just saying this by the way. There is empirical evidence the donor class decides politics. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
minus-squarestarelfsc2@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoTheir inference from the data is correct but misleading, since for 90% of the issues the average citizen and the “donor class” were aligned, and when they were not, the citizen’s decisions were chosen about 40% of the time. That’s definitely a hard lean towards the rich, though their claim is that the average citizen has near-zero impact which is a big overstatement. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283035709_Testing_Inferences_about_American_Politics_A_Review_of_the_Oligarchy_Result
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoOn the federal level near zero is accurate. Trying to downplay this is rather silly.
It’s not people just saying this by the way. There is empirical evidence the donor class decides politics.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
Their inference from the data is correct but misleading, since for 90% of the issues the average citizen and the “donor class” were aligned, and when they were not, the citizen’s decisions were chosen about 40% of the time. That’s definitely a hard lean towards the rich, though their claim is that the average citizen has near-zero impact which is a big overstatement.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283035709_Testing_Inferences_about_American_Politics_A_Review_of_the_Oligarchy_Result
On the federal level near zero is accurate. Trying to downplay this is rather silly.