Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on September 21, 2011 at 3:56pm

Plutocracy.

 

A lot.

 

(I'm a man of few words.)

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on September 21, 2011 at 5:49pm

Dylan Ratigan half-jokingly said we Americans "like to pretend we have democracy", but all the money going into politics really makes our system a complete sham. I thought it was terribly provocative to realize, hey wait, we don't even have DEMOCRACY? What the hell? I'm going to dwell on this point for a long time.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on September 21, 2011 at 6:04pm

One of our problems is that people ingest propaganda and then fool themselves into thinking it's their own opinion. I think we have a facade of democracy, but not a genuine democracy (whatever that is).

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on September 21, 2011 at 7:17pm

I was trying to convince a couple people today that the Democrats and Republicans are NOT Communistic.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on September 22, 2011 at 7:53am

Geez, they must have been Libertarians, no?

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on September 22, 2011 at 10:03am

They were basing it on the voting system.  They seemed to think that only in Communist countries is the voting "fixed".  I don't know about either one of their political affiliations.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Jedi Wanderer on September 22, 2011 at 10:37am

That's retarded. I hope you had some good counterarguments?

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Susan Stanko on September 22, 2011 at 12:12pm

Nope, They didn't seem interested.  Besides, I was at work and I really didn't want to get into it.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by roland707 on September 23, 2011 at 9:17am

A person could encounter some real dumb-asses at work.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by annet on September 21, 2011 at 8:54pm

I'd have to agree and say Plutocracy.  John Dewey said it: "Government is the shadow cast by business over society."

 

Here is good info on who is getting whom elected: 

http://www.opensecrets.org/

 

 

 

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Markcincy on September 21, 2011 at 11:18pm

Plutocracy yes.  In America past there were many political parties. Now only two parties ran by corporations. Voting makes you think you have a choice in the direction of the country.

• ▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Natalie A Sera on September 22, 2011 at 7:48am

I DO vote, because the moneyed class WANTS the rest of us to be disenfranchised.

• ▶ Reply

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• 2
• 3
• …
• 15
• Next ›
• Page