Comment by astrange
3 years ago
> Princeton even published a study on the subject[1].
And that study is false; what it actually shows is that elites and average citizens agree on most things that pass, not that only elites approve of them.
https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...
Remember, when you come across some cynical information that shows the average person is a sheeple/NPC/etc, it’s not true! Average people are usually right.
Average people observably have many of their opinions assigned to them by elites. Take Ukraine for example. I assure you that if our elites favored Russia, the “average people” would all have Russian flags in their profiles.
In those cases where average people and elites do disagree, such as border security, the elites reliably get their way.
And yes I’ve seen the shoddy attempts to refute the Princeton study. They’re unconvincing.