Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130309:14:13:00
So one standard model that we think about how democratic governance works. there's individual citizens that have policy preferences. those policy preferences are aggravated in something like public opinion. and the elected representatives represent the aggregated public opinion. and when they represent and legislate, they pass laws which are relatively in sync with what people think. but, of course, people's views on things are often real ambivale ambivalent, or uninformed. some copyright laws working its way through congress, how do i feel about it? i don't know. so political leaders can shap...