книга The Populist Delusion, https://b-ok.cc/book/22432626/768e55

ревью - https://postcanadian.com/neena-parvini-populist-delusion/

...organized minority always rules over the majority. Perhaps as a testament to that fact, a recent empirical study showed that public opinion has a near-zero impact on law-making in the USA across 1,779 policy issues.
‘Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.’

What immediately comes to mind recently is the Freedom Trucker Convoy in Ottawa.
...no real political or governing change occurred directly from the protests.

"In the new form of society, sovereignty is localized in administrative bureaus. They proclaim the rules, make the laws, issue the decrees.

The shift from parliament to the bureaus occurs on a world scale […] The actual directing and administrative work of the bureaus is carried on by new men, a new type of men.
It is, specifically, the managerial type […]
The active heads of bureaus are the managers-in-government, the same, or nearly the same, in training, functions, skills, habits of thought as the managers-in-industry."
James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution, 1941

This book will help you to avoid the misdirection of putting too much time into system politics and thinking you’re effecting change when really you’re just performatively wasting time.
People on our side are all too often encouraged to avoid empty actions like social media hash tagging and virtue signaling and instead “get involved” with democratic politics, or at least get out to vote.

At a glance, this seems concrete and practical, but the reality is you will be quickly exploited by these systems if you aren’t careful or savvy.

As for voting, it’s debatable that it matters much especially if the real power is behind and above our elected officials.