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Decisions like this lend a certain credence to recent studies showing that only the desires of the economic and political elite actually affect policy.

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Study cited (I think): http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/04/is...

What a fancy way of saying we don't live in a functioning republic.

It's also an evidence backed way of saying it. Which is quite useful.

That was exactly the conclusion of the paper. The US is effectively an oligarchy.

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