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Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy
In an explosive report from TalkingPointsMemo.com, they reveal a brand new study from Princeton University has found that the US is not longer a democracy, but an oligarchy. The report states, “A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking ‘[w]ho really rules?’ researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argue that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wield most power.
Using data drawn from over 1,800 different policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, the two conclude that rich, well-connected individuals on the political scene now steer the direction of the country, regardless of or even against the will of the majority of voters. ‘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,’ they write, ‘while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence.’
As one illustration, Gilens and Page compare the political preferences of Americans at the 50th income percentile to preferences of Americans at the 90th percentile as well as major lobbying or business groups. They find that the government—whether Republican or Democratic—more often follows the preferences of the latter group rather than the first.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/08/princeton-study-u-s-no-longer-an-actual-democracy/
America has NEVER been a democracy but a Constitutional Republic. The oligarchy began decades before the 1981 study year began. We have since degenerated into something worse.
Democratic Republic.
2% of your population kidnapped you from your fellow Britons for the profit making possibilities that making up a nonsense melting pot constitution for the half slaves they kidnapped offered them.