Actions speak louder than words when it comes to policymaking. For the last 20 years or so, the words of the president have not correlated with the actions of the president.
For the record, I know that the president does not legally have the right to make policy, but they can influence policymaking directly. There was a graph that was published by Princeton in 2004 that came to the conclusion that Congress was not representing the American people accurately.
They came to this conclusion because on the x-axis, it was the popularity of a particular idea amongst the American people, and on the y-axis, it was the likelihood that Congress would act and create policy for this idea.
For the bottom 90% of people who have an income, the rate that Congress would do anything remained almost constant at 30%, no matter if 0% of the population supported it, or 100% of the population supported it. For the top 10% of people, the line was almost exponential.
What this graph shows is that Congress does not care about the American people as much as we would want them to. Congress is supposed to be a representation of the people, the majority of the people, at least, and when a majority of the population supports policy change, it shouldn’t be a ⅓ chance of change actually happening, it should be a 100% chance of change happening.
To have it like this, where the opinion of the majority of the population does not matter is an insult to the phrase representative democracy. It is an insult to the American people who actually believe in the system, and do not get to see any benefits from it, because Congress is bought out. There is no real quality solution here, the Congress of the United States has been bought out by people who have too much money for one person, and it has been disastrous for the American people.
