O say can you see, the U. S. Oligarchy?
Offline O say can you see, the U. S. Oligarchy?
The U. S. is on sale. Buy it while it’s hot.
O say can you see,
by the dawn's early light,
what so proudly we hailed
we now proudly renounce.
democracy
http://blog.ted.com/2008/09/17/the_real_differ/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-14SllPPLxY
Plato theorized that democracies, as they matured, evolved into oligarchies or plutocracies. We are witnessing exactly that.
When the new political election funding laws came into effect, the U. S. democratic system became an oligarchy or plutocracy. Billionaires are now buying political candidates and are in fact buying the leadership of the nation. They are now the power behind the throne and control the government and thus the people. Now, instead of working 9 to 5, Americans are working 24/7.
When did the U. S. devolve from the leading democracy of the West, to a tyranny up for sale?
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DL
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Yet the new campaign finance laws make it possible for groups of people to pool their money to make millions for campaign advertisements. It has always been legal for a millionaire to buy as many campaign advertisements as they please with their personal money. It has always been legal for wealthy people to put all of their own money into their personal campaign, that is mostly how Ross Perot funded his campaign. The changes to campaign financing have removed power from the traditional two parties and the good old boys clubs that run them.
If you have two brain cells and a radio you should have noticed a dramatic increase in the amount of radio ads that are not affiliated with particular candidates and it is one of the reasons the republican primary has lasted this long. In previous years the powers that be inside the party would have eliminated the funding for the losing candidates after a couple of primaries.
With less restrictions it is also far more likely that we will see a viable third party candidate. Previously, to even consider a serious third party run you had to be a billionaire because the democrat and republican parties were an oligarchy when it came to raising money. Now any interest group can raise large amounts of funds and compete. You still have a lot of work to raise the $500 million it costs to run a presidential campaign, but it is now far easier than being limited to $2000 donations while your opponents could raise $100,000 at a time because they happened to have an R or D in front of their name.
I suggest that you read actual campaign finance law and learn how it works rather than simply buy into the propaganda. To say that allowing more people to run advertisements and making the political ad market more accessible somehow creates an oligarchy is absurd. It was an oligarchy when the only feasible way to run a national ad campaign required you to be a billionaire or to be approved by the leadership of the republican or democrat party. Now we are much more free and the new laws substantially weakened the traditional party structure that has had a stranglehold on our politics for well over 100 years. Which is why members of the establishment in both parties hate Citizens United- they no longer have a monopoly on determining who gets the millions.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.- Malcolm X
Thanks for this.
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DL
Thanks for this.
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DL
What does "DL" stand for?
Just the initials to my real name.
It is a habit.
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DL