American Democracy Has Been Sold to the Highest Bidder

Aristotle measured the quality of democracy by the extent to which politics constrains the economically powerful, allowing the preferences of the landless to be reflected in public policy. According to a new analysis, American democracy gets a failing grade on Aristotle’s test, while the countries of northern Europe are star pupils....
http://www.newsweek.com/american-democracy-has-been-sold-highest-bidder-803621