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Scientific Study Says the US is an Oligarchy (In Other Breaking News: Water is Wet!)
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The Daily Kos has reported on a new study (courtesy of researchers from Princeton and Northwestern) which claims to demonstrate, via science, that the US is an oligarchy:
“The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence. Our results provide substantial support for theories of Economic Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.”
This news shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention, though it is encouraging to see that more people are beginning to wake up and acknowledge these facts.
Another disturbing aspect which the author points out: ”the data used for this study was drawn from study of public policy 1,779 instances between 1981 and 2002. Did you get that….2002…In other words the closing set of data PRE-dates the years most of us would say were when the oligarchs truly built steam. Think of what’s unaccounted for: the Iraq War, OWS, drones and the NSA, Citizen’s United and now McCutcheon. One has to think if the last 13 years had also been accessed, the conclusions would be much more dire than even they already are.”
Continue reading here.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/04/scientific-study-says-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-in-other-breaking-news-water-is-wet/
