Comment on Study: 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.

• cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just vote for the right people for a decade and it can happen

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The GOP fell to the MAGA crowd a lot quicker than a decade.

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    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ehh…not that much.

      Sarah Palin was supposed to bring in the party’s fringes for McCain in his 2008 bid. She was considered a nutter then.

      One Obama later, and suddenly McCain was either the scum of the earth or the best the GOP has to offer, depending on who you ask, and those groups of people flipped in that time. Meanwhile Palin became a mascot.

      Palin wasn’t even invited to his funeral. Didn’t speak to him one time in the year he was sick.

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      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’ve been falling for loonies for decades, sure, but that is tangential.

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• Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If history tells us anything, fascists love advertising that they’re actually socialists and that you should definitely vote for them. And North Carolina got a little taste of what that might feel like last year.

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  • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a problem no matter how government officials are elected, and therefore irrelevant.

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    • Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sortition

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      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In a country where 1/3rd of the country is either fascist or a fascist sympathizer? No thanks.

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