I see you know the secret handshake. Welcome aboard, friend.I helped you with that.
Democracy dead? Yeah - we're pretty much spent in that category anyway.I just find it odd that so many are stating emphatically that the election n question was above board and legit are precisely the same who are going off the deep end that our democracy is dead.
The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence. Our results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.