Friday, April 18, 2014

Travis Gettys — Study: Popular movements strangled by influence of the wealthy elite in Congress (via Raw Story )

Study: Popular movements strangled by influence of the wealthy elite in Congress (via Raw Story )
A forthcoming study found that ordinary citizens exert little influence on the political process, even when they form coalitions to compete against corporate interests. A co-author of the study, which will be published later this year, said he was particularly…


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"...a little disturbing"

Typical mealy-mouth.

Roger Erickson said...

it's about the "Looting Lobby" -

their consistent platform is "freedom to operate" - aka, deregulation

http://www.thenation.com/article/179034/whats-really-behind-koch-attacks-democrats