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Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy
www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4, posted 2014 by peter in business politics science usa
The positions of powerful interest groups are "not substantially correlated with the preferences of average citizens," but the politics of average Americans and affluent Americans sometimes does overlap. This is merely a coincidence, the report says, with the interests of the average American being served almost exclusively when it also serves those of the richest 10%.