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Friday, April 18, 2014

It’s Official: America is an Oligarchy and NOT a Democracy

We noted last year:

American democracy – once a glorious thing – has devolved into an oligarchy, according to two leading IMF officials, the former Vice President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, thehead of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Moody’s chief economist and many others.

But don’t take their word for it …

A new quantitative study by Princeton’s Martin Gilens and Northwestern’s Benjamin Page finds that America is not a democracy … but is an oligarchy.

Here’s a quick visual overview from the study:

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2 comments:

Jim said...

Please folks, the United States was never, nor was it ever intended to be, a democracy. It is a republic. Remember the line from the Pledge of Allegiance "and to the republic for which it stands". Calling it a democracy seems to have come about in maybe, the 80's.

Anonymous said...

This fall, lets make it a real Republican democracy!