So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.
This is not news, you say.
Perhaps, but the two professors have conducted exhaustive research to try to present data-driven support for this conclusion. Here’s how they explain it:
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
It’s a one-party state.
If the majority of the island taking to the streets doesn’t count for anything, pick a better lie.
The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them. — Julius Nyerere
Whether a bourgeois democracy has two parties or a thousand, it’s still a democracy of the capitalist class at the expense of the working class.
BBC: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
Yes, China is a one party state: the party of the working class.
Ignore what words mean, pound the table.
Attack is not defense.