@AAA365a @chris @soc_i_ety >When these values are not upheld a country becomes undemocratic.
I believe this is the challenge, as legislation is so difficult to repeal and is generally not what people actually want. We have the Princeton study (linked below) which supports this. Ultimately democracy is used as a tool of division for oligarchical control; it is far easier to disburse blame upon your fellow citizens than the elected officials.
>"A proposed policy change with low support among economically elite Americans (one-out-of-five in favour) is adopted only about 18% of the time," they write, "while a proposed change with high support (four-out-of-five in favour) is adopted about 45% of the time."
>When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.




cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B