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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)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, no shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

No one with power will ever pass laws to reduce their power, but a direct democracy would be very posible with modern technology.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That would be nice in the future. Unfortunately, the modern Web is not even in the ballpark of being secure enough for something like that (and it's trending worse, not better).

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Y'all should check out Doug Ford and the Ontario Science center shit show if you like this type of story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

There was s study about this year's ago. They compared popularity of bills and how they were passed and there was no difference; Congress just did what they want. I suspect if your redid the study to compare bills passed to corporate interests you'd get much more revealing results.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Keep voting blue and hope things change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Take over the democratic party with actual leftists. If the fascists can do it with the GOP, we can do it with leftists/the DNC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Just vote for the right people for a decade and it can happen

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

Go to 5:40

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I want to understand what Skippy says, but when 'literally' is the best adverb available I just don't want to hear any more.

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