return2ozma@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year 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-square142fedilinkarrow-up1824arrow-down127
arrow-up1797arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square142fedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·1 year 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.