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| Thread ID: 127030 | 2012-09-30 09:09:00 | The Decay of American Democracy | zqwerty (97) | PC World Chat |
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| 1304225 | 2012-09-30 09:09:00 | A short rewarding read: www.secularhumanism.org |
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| 1304226 | 2012-09-30 09:37:00 | Sorry guys wrong forum, mods please move this. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1304227 | 2012-09-30 19:58:00 | Read it but I think its a lot of hogwash because voters can still vote for who they want. Its the filthy sicko leftists who are worried about right wing conservatives becoming popular and winning the vote, that isn't decay of democracy. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1304228 | 2012-09-30 20:10:00 | Its the filthy sicko leftists who are worried about right wing conservatives becoming popular and winning the vote, Who vote for such as John Key, Rob Muldoon and still pretend nothing is wrong when they are doing no better than Labour before them. there really is nothing to choose |
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| 1304229 | 2012-09-30 21:48:00 | They are all rotten apples, aren't they? | bk T (215) | ||
| 1304230 | 2012-09-30 22:13:00 | If you need to be backed with millions of dollars to be a Senator, and then further backed by hundreds of millions of dollars to run for President, then you are very definitely either: a) out of touch with the common man you are meant to represent or b) compromised and in the pockets of the rich Either way, it's a sham of a democracy, even if Joe Average is free to vote for you or any other individual being hosted with hundreds of millions of dollars of backing. If the poor man cannot have his ideas for policy heard then there's no democracy at all. Giving someone two options for voting, both picked by the mega wealthy is not really giving the common man a voice. It's like giving voters two options: a) Death tomorrow by firing squad or b) death tomorrow by electrocution. Neither option is desirable, and to say that they had a fair democratic choice is absurd when neither of the available options represent their interests. But that is exactly what US elections are all about. The rich pick their puppet, the rich pick the policy, and the poor folk get to pretend they really have a choice. When the puppet (President) works in a fashion contrary to their masters, the Senate stops them. |
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