Legislating For...whom?

"IT IS MY FIRM BELIEF that congress ought to at least occasionally legislate for the poor" said Congressman Davy Crockett. According to a thorough study published in 2014 by Princeton professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern professor Benjamin Page, the preferences of the typical American have absolutely no influence at all on legislation passed by congress. Long had we suspected this; they verify it, empirically. Their study is titled "Affluence and Influence". Former labor Secretary Robert Reich, who now teaches and researches in the academic community at U.C. Berkeley, refers to their research in his new monograph "The System: Who rigged It, How We Fix It". Congressional law makers pay no attention to us, the American people. Instead, according to Gilens and page, congress caters caters exclusively to the extremely wealthy and to big business, the corporate elite, the ruling oligarchy, what the late writer and historian Gore Vidal called "our corporate masters". The common denominator is that all these legislative assault on equality, freedom, and democracy are being promulgated under false pretenses, the stated justification a fictitious cover for their actual intent. Their stated intent is usually a version of trickle down economics and government; assist the rich in assisting the poor, the actual intent is the transfer of trillions of dollars of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the governing billionaires. Democratic and Republican politicians are both owned and controlled by big, dark money, but any cursory examination of their respective stated agendas quickly reveals that the Democratic program is much more aligned with tet interests of the poor, working, and middle classes.and the republicans serve the billionaire class, directly, unabashedly. In terms of actual preferences, it turns out that we the american people are actually far more socialistic than the corporate controlled spokespeople and media would have us believe. A substantial majority of the American people want Medicare for all, a green new deal, higher taxes on the wealthy, a wealth tax, a higher minimum wage, well regulated capitalism, and protection of women's reproductive rights. This has long been the case, though never revealed to us.  It is the billionaire class and the corporate oligarchy which wants and gets lower wages for workers, unregulated capitalism, trickle down economics, and the rest of the conservative, pro business agenda.Thus it is the one percent which rules, and the ninety nine percent which accept overlordship, placidly, inertly, like sheep.