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Link: https://socialistworker.org/2011/10/26/how-the-1-percent-rules
If you look at opinion polls on questions like taxing the rich, regulating Wall Street, spending money on jobs, prioritizing economic growth over cutting the deficit or preserving and protecting Social Security and Medicare, you'll find popular, often lopsided, majorities opposed to austerity and in favor of "redistributionist" policies. Yet the dysfunctional government seems incapable--and not even much interested--in doing much of anything to meet these popular demands.