return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 6 months agoStudy: 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.usexternal-linkmessage-square143fedilinkarrow-up1782arrow-down122cross-posted to: usa
arrow-up1760arrow-down1external-linkStudy: 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.usreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square143fedilinkcross-posted to: usa
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·6 months ago mandatory vote solves nothing It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote. In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.
It theoretically solves structural disenfranchisement, as a mandate to vote is implicitly a mandate to allow people to vote.
In practice, though? States can still layer on all sorts of Jim Crow shit to screen out the lower classes again.