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Don't vote! It only encourages them!
"It doesn’t matter whether or not you vote, you are throwing your vote away regardless. Or, if it makes you feel better, it is thrown away for you."
Dimitry Orlov @ClubOrlov checks in on the Gilens & Page Princeton study of American public opinion and it’s i̶n̶f̶l̶u̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ non-influence on government policy and illustrates with charts the sway y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶m̶a̶s̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶s̶ t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶l̶u̶t̶o̶c̶r̶a̶t̶s̶ … 'the economic elite and business groups' DO have over public policy.
This outcome is undoubtedly just as inevitable in local elections as the national races.
This outcome is undoubtedly just as inevitable in local elections as the national races.
For more information:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/05/mone...
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