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Originally posted by NoImSpartacus:
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What you fail to understand (because frankly, it's clear from what you wrote that you have never thought about it deeply) is that Government by Representatives is NOT Democracy. Instead, its a mechanism they said would deliver democracy. Well, just over 230 years of modern Govt by Reps has shown quite conclusively that it very rarely delivers governments that do what the majority of the people want. Indeed, what we need to understand about this system is that by concentrating political power in the hands of, say, 500 representatives, political power can be harnessed and manipulated by the few (almost always the aristocracy and the Rich - and remember it was the American rich and aristocracy who designed this system) to serve their interests. Their wealth and position buy's them the mechanisms and the Representatives so that its their bidding that is done and not the bidding of the majority. For example, the overwhelming evidence points to the conclusions that (1) most Americans want the $$$ going to Ukraine to go to fixing the US crumbling infrastructure; (2) most Americans want to close US borders to refugees; (3) Most Americans want universal health care like the rest of the developed world. But Americans will never get those things because its not what the Power Elite want. You catching on?
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Perhaps we need Democracy At Work first
