Its gotten way worse since then

Yet we are constantly told that our votes count........

I can't believe an academic would not be aware of this. On the other hand, academics needed a study.
I am sure the DNC and RNC and Washington DC are real up on this, though.

and that in and of itself is unfortunate.

You needed a study to tell you this?

If you watch faux news? then you believe this liberal propaganda!!!

the decision just lets them do it in the open now. They are not even pretending anymore.

They could have just asked us.

The people who did the study? You're probably right about them. But there are plenty of other people who do need such a study. For example, liberal pluralists, who analyze society into a variety of "interest groups," e.g., Catholics, gays, women, African Americans, the poor, the elderly, and corporations (as if they were just one interest group among others, and not the ruling force in society). This idea is quite common among academics, especially political scientists, who hold it as a kind of dogma.

A study like this one might help cause some of these people to think twice about the way society is structured.

Brilliant deduction.

where someone gives me a huge grant to write a paper stating the bloody obvious?

to acknowledge that they are the tricks in this poli/porn game?

Is there a Anti-Willful-Ignorance (AWI) 12 step program?

Just like the rest of us addicts, we first buy into the fact that we are "right" and justified in our self-destructive behavior.

We then DENY (you know about that river) any other viewpoint.

We congregate with others who have our same deficiencies and therefore self-reinforce.

Of course the industries (legit? and non) that make $$s off us promote their wares.

We sink to our own personal lows and either stay deep in the muck or find the way to enlightenment.

(Of course this could be used against people like me - Bernistas, too.)

Taxation with only token representation is tyranny. In this country only the ultra wealthy can buy real representation.

Then, through the Telecommunications Act, they consolidated the media. Now, differences between the networks editorial stances are only a facade. We are being buried.

Ours are just bankrolling the democratic process, out of their concern for democracy, or so they say.

I was born in the 60s and have been watching this coup since 1980. The "Reagan Revolution" has taken it's toll.