{"id":18286,"date":"2014-08-13T15:07:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T22:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2014-08-13T15:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T22:07:54","slug":"you-have-near-zero-influence-on-u-s-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/you-have-near-zero-influence-on-u-s-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"You have &#8220;near-zero&#8221; influence on U.S. policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know this actually came out last spring. But in this iteration of the news they keep using the word &#8220;startling.&#8221; Somebody is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/drudgegae.iavian.net\/r?hop=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2FBig-Government%2F2014%2F08%2F12%2FStudy-You-Have-Near-Zero-Impact-on-U-S-Policy\" target=\"_blank\">startled by this<\/a>???<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rather like being startled by the sun rising in the east. A chancre turning out to be syphilitic. Or a politician lying. Still the study (early draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~mgilens\/Gilens%20homepage%20materials\/Gilens%20and%20Page\/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) could be worth sharing with your &#8220;vote-to-make-a-difference&#8221; friends. Full study due out this fall, so we&#8217;re not months behind the news here; we&#8217;re months ahead of the next round of shock! Dismay! And we must DO SOMETHING about this!<\/p>\n<p>(H\/T MtK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I know this actually came out last spring. But in this iteration of the news they keep using the word &#8220;startling.&#8221; Somebody is actually startled by this??? It&#8217;s rather like being startled by the sun rising in the east. A chancre turning out to be syphilitic. Or a politician lying. Still the study (early draft here) could be worth sharing with your &#8220;vote-to-make-a-difference&#8221; friends. Full study due out this fall, so we&#8217;re not months behind the news here; we&#8217;re months ahead of the next round of shock! Dismay! And we must DO SOMETHING about this! (H\/T MtK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-poly-ticks","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}