Why are they not concerned about public opinion

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40. Worse than you think. Research shows that it's been that way for decades....

Already by 2014, over a period of two decades, there was literally a near-zero correlation between legislation actually enacted and public preferences; see https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba/ , or the actual the study by Profs Martin Gilens (Princeton.) & Benjamin I. Page (Northwestern U.) at https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc .

Imho, the only kind of protest that really gets their attention is shutting down the money-making. It doesn't have to be via violence, but there need to be widespread general strikes that really hit them in their pocketbooks.

I also favor well-defined demands that go to the roots of our problems; e.g.:

we need to restore the regulations put on Wall St. after the 1929 crash that kept our economy growing for everyone, without booms or busts, for 50 years before the regs were repealed (under Pres. Clinton & his successors), and extend them to apply to credit derivatives & other Wall St. innovations;

we need to restore the restrictions against consolidation of media ownership that were repealed under the Telecom Act of 1996, and extend them to the internet;

we need to restore labor law protections to the levels that during the 1950's-70's helped create the greatest middle class wealth in human history; and

we need to restore the levels of taxation of the rich that began to be rolled back under Pres. Reagan.

Restoring anti-trust regulation & enforcement would also be helpful (how the heck is amazon allowed to continue hoovering up vast chunks of our economy??)

Apart from that, Represent.Us has what I consider to be the most realistic plan of action for trying to recover public control over our government.