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2021-05-02 Home Front: Politix

US 'democracy' is run by and for the oligarchs: Analyst

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#1 Chinese ones?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-02 01:01|| 2021-05-02 01:01|| Front Page Top

#2 The question of whether our democracy will long endure is both ancient and urgent

What idiocy. America is like 245 years old.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-02 01:07|| 2021-05-02 01:07|| Front Page Top

#3 The United States is not a democracy. It is "the global capitalist system run by and for the oligarchs" who control the country

A man by the name of Donald Trump forced their masks to slip. It would appear those who hold the real power hate him for it.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-02 07:28|| 2021-05-02 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Republics are hard to survive the natural behavior of man; tribalism, territorial instinct, and hierarchical order. Thus they are 'unnatural', but possible as flying when one arranges and enforces decentralization, checks and balances, and constrains the 'lust' for power. Power has a tendency to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-02 08:06|| 2021-05-02 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Been that way since at least the late 90s.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-05-02 09:07|| 2021-05-02 09:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Josh Hawley warns Big Tech is trying to 'transform America and silence our speech' in book that was canceled by Simon & Schuster after Twitter campaign BUT will hit shelves this week

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-02 11:14|| 2021-05-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 What idiocy. America is like 245 years old.

As my lovely wife once observed, "the gum on London sidewalks is older"

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-02 11:15|| 2021-05-02 11:15|| Front Page Top

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