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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: rangerrebew on August 08, 2015, 11:39:45 am

Title: Study: Congress Literally Doesn’t Care What You Think
Post by: rangerrebew on August 08, 2015, 11:39:45 am

Study: Congress Literally Doesn’t Care What You Think


 
 Represent.us
 August 6th, 2015
 

Professors Martin Gilens (Princeton University) and Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern University) looked at more than 20 years worth of data to answer a simple question: Does the government represent the people?

Their study took data from nearly 2000 public opinion surveys and compared it to the policies that ended up becoming law. In other words, they compared what the public wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of 90% of Americans have essentially no impact at all.

This video gives a quick rundown of their findings — it all boils down to one simple graph:

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/study-congress-literally-doesnt-care-what-you-think_082015

Title: Re: Study: Congress Literally Doesn’t Care What You Think
Post by: libertybele on August 08, 2015, 08:11:00 pm

Does this really surprise anyone?