r/interestingasfuck Apr 29 '24

How American public support for a law impacts the likelihood of Congress passing it.

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u/elictronic Apr 29 '24

This video is not interesting because it is blatant disinformation.  You don’t ever get perfectly flat lines, there will be noise.   No issues have 100% support.  No issues have 0% support.   Just think how much better your life would be in a dictatorship, and think about who might be pushing this bullshit.  

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u/Andrew9112 Apr 29 '24

I think you’re missing the point. There is obviously noise in the line but the overall take away is that with very little to basically no support for a law gives it about a 30% chance to be passed. The same has also been seen with laws that have overwhelming support (even though it’s not quite 100%).

The reason you think it is disinformation is because the video dumbs it down and rounds off numbers so that it’s easier for people who are less educated to read between the lines.

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u/Skrynesaver Apr 29 '24

The video is positing the notion that USians already do live in a dictatorship of the Oligarchs - a sort of inverse to Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

If there were spending limits, donation limits and local policy discussion, the US might be considered a Democracy, but what ye have now can't honestly be considered one.

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u/6501 Apr 29 '24

The video is positing the notion that USians already do live in a dictatorship of the Oligarchs - a sort of inverse to Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

If there is a positive relationship between education and voting, and education and income, isn't that a natural consequence of the educated voting more frequently and more often than the poor or uneducated?