article is such garbage.
"Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy," their paper found, "while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence."
This is the truth this article and the paper it was written about try and counter.
Very slick how they try and do it as well.
"Not so fast! says University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. candidate J. Alexander Branham. At a panel at the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) conference on Friday he presented the findings of a paper suggesting that those dramatic claims are probably getting it wrong."
First of all, he's a PhD candidate.
Second of all, he's at that hotbed of liberal thinking, Texas :-).
"Branham said. "I'm going to try to convince you of two things: The first thing is that it's really, really rare for the middle class and the rich to actually disagree about the policies that we want. And the second thing is that when you get a disagreement between the middle class and the rich, it's basically a coin flip as to which group gets their way."
You don't have to convince me of the first point Mr. Branham.
I agree with you.
The middle class and the rich do mostly agree about the policies wanted.
What's not being explained here is the reason why that is the case and how that being true doesn't prove the point about the US not heading toward or being an oligarchy.
The reason the middle class agree with the rich about the policies wanted is they've been brained washed into believing it's good policy for them.
Every tax cut passed in my lifetime had disproportionately benefited the rich.
"Hey, lets make these suckers feel like they're getting a break and well reap the benefits."
Might as well be the motto.
I've been watching it for over forty years.
The middle class supports tax cuts for the rich.
They do.
They always have.
Cause they think it benefits them.
It doesn't.
It never has.
Doesn't mean were not becoming a country ruled by wealthy elites.
Means people are suckers and easy to brainwash.
I got another example.
The middle class supported its repeal.
Cause they thought they would benefit from it.
Never gonna happen.
So no.
Just because the middle class supports policies that benefit the rich doesn't mean were not becoming a country ruled by a group of families of super rich who use their wealth to purchase candidates, and buy economic and political influence.
I remember having a conversation along these lines with a hardcore democratic friend of mind.
"Well I don't have anything against the rich they earned it."
The fact is a lot aren't anymore.
More and more heirs on the fortune 500 list who did nothing but be born into the right family.
The fact that a hardcore democrat believes "the rich they earned it."?
Tells me how entrenched the belief that the rich have "earned" it has become.
The fact that papers like this are being presented?
And articles like this being written?
Tells you people are feeling the heat.
I told my son a long time ago Lucy.
He will be set up, nicely.
But he will have to work to make his own mark.
To maintain the life he wants.
Our wealth?
Charity baby.
Hopefully our own foundation or something that gets perpetuated.
All of it.
When were gone.
I love you baby.
Getting more back to normal everyday seems like.
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