yogthos , 11 months ago

The reality is that what majority of people in US want has absolutely no effect on what the government does as a study analyzing decades of US policy clearly showed:

What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens.

What makes these news stories relevant is that they’re an indicator of where the ruling class is planning to take things, and it’s pretty clear that the narrative is being shaped for US to pull out of the proxy war with Russia.