Yeah but does it really matter? It's not like this kind of analysis is going to change much. Sure an informed electorate is supposedly a dangerous thing but that's only if they're able to protest and congregate and create a collective to stand up and demand change. If people don't have the ability to do this because they're scrambling to make ends meet but are still just comfortable enough or downtrodden enough not to act up (not out)...It's time for America to treat itself but it won't, we can spend an extra $900 billion but how much of that would just go towards military since apparently we need to spend $1 trillion on upgrading our nuclear arsenal? I've had a shit day and I don't believe any of this matters. By the time society has moved along enough to do something the rules of the game will have changed (see: climate change and mass migration of refugees). Austerity austerity austerity.