return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 6 days 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-square145fedilinkarrow-up1794arrow-down126cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1768arrow-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 days agomessage-square145fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·5 days 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.