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Vote them out and elect who?

Some other member from one of the two parties, who will continue to make decisions mostly for their rich donors?

> Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.

> One thing that does have an influence? Money. While the opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America have a “statistically non-significant impact,” economic elites, business interests, and people who can afford lobbyists still carry major influence.

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba




> Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law

Re-run that within voting jurisdictions. What that study largely seems to reference is that local representation is, in part, a divide and conquer mechanism.




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