Collision Resistance@lemm.ee to Death to NATO@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 1 year agoCNN Poll: Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russiaedition.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up163arrow-down15cross-posted to: freeforum@exploding-heads.compolitics@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkCNN Poll: Majority of Americans oppose more US aid for Ukraine in war with Russiaedition.cnn.comCollision Resistance@lemm.ee to Death to NATO@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: freeforum@exploding-heads.compolitics@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.ml
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·1 year agoUnfortunately: What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. 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 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.
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