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by mamon 3030 days ago
As the old saying goes: "If the democratic elections really could make a difference they would have been forbidden by now".

American law for example reflects views and interests of small group of oligarchy, and not general public. It's been like that for quite a long time, to quote [1]: "The preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy"

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/america...