31 January

Another way to look at Trump's success (thanks Scott Tully) is to look at how ordinary people have lost power in politics. Those are the people who voted for Trump, although the rest of us have lost power too and voting for somebody else wouldn't have changed it anyway. In the US, legislation has on average a 31% chance of passing. If the Bill is favoured by the public, that chance rises to 32%. If the public doesn't like a Bill, its chances of passing fall to 30%. In other words the public means diddly squat to legislators. However when a Bill is favoured by the richest 10% of Americans, it passes on average 65% of the time. When a Bill is opposed by the richest 10%, the chance of it passing drops to 0%. I'll re-post the graph below that shows the way out of this mess. Trump isn't the problem, he's what the problem made possible. Join a union people. Now. Fast.