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quotemstr
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F.C.C., in ‘Net Neutrality’ Turnaround, Plans to A...
Decisions like this lend a certain credence to recent studies showing that only the desires of the economic and political elite actually affect policy.
ama729
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Study cited (I think):
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/04/is...
tokenizer
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What a fancy way of saying we don't live in a functioning republic.
freshhawk
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It's also an evidence backed way of saying it. Which is quite useful.
rhubarbquid
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That was exactly the conclusion of the paper. The US is effectively an oligarchy.
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