iie [they/them, he/him]

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and then folks ask why people don’t like you

I know why you specifically don’t like us lol. I recognize your username from the constant long arguments with hexbear users I see you get into.

…but whatever fits your narrative, I guess

obviously a mistake?

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• 70% of Americans want singlepayer healthcare
• 90% want universal background checks for firearm purchases
• 75% want Citizen’s United repealed

and yet these and other popular policies remain politically impossible

Study: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens:

From the abstract:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

further down:

In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

What is it, like, 70% of Americans want single payer healthcare?