Ahh...so ignorant, so amusing.
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The ruling elite doesn't answer to us. They control the money. They infuence the government. They own the mainstream media. All they require of us is our consent, and that can be manufactured though manipulation of these resources.
Fun fact of the day: guess who is the single largest donating to California Governer Grey Davis' campaign fund?
THE PRISON GAURD'S UNION.
Yep, the rich control everything alright. Thats exactly why the PGU got some ridiculously high % of raise.
Yes, money influences the government a lot. You play that up, though, and play down the part unions play in that.
Besides that, nobody can do anything overtly unbeneficial to the people, sometimes even environment (again, look at gray davis- if he gets reelected, its only because the republicans are too stupid to choose a good canidate) without having to answer to them. You talk of great ideals and 'fixing' things but at the same time you assume your fellow man is too stupid to know when something bad is happening?
Besides that, you assume (as many do) that "the rich" are some cohesive, even semi-cohesive group that work twords some of the same goals. The fact is they are the most divided of any of social class, because they usually compete against one another. Middle class and lower class people do not, traditionally, have that kind of seperation, and they have only moderate power as a group. The rich have no power as 'a group'- only as individuals.
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As for it being a broken system it is. the system was broken because they people in florida can't count. If Gore (an eilte just like bush) had gotten more votes in florida (before the legally impotent supreme court stepped in) he would be our president right now. And if you want to get into what is wrong with our country it is the fact that the Supreme Court has no check on its actions. its decrees are supreme and no one can challenge them.
*sigh*...they only have jurisdiction over several places. Their JOB is to interpret the law. Their decrees are supreme with respect to the law, but on any other matter they have no control.
I don't get it. You play up the Supreme Court as some dictator-like mass, when first off they are usually divided on what they think, and second, all they can do is interpret the law!
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Our country is a democracy in the greater meaning of the word. just like the European socialist republics (Britin, france, Germany, etc...) are. We elect ALL of our representation. The American public who is too blind and stupid to realize the hole they are digging for themselves by elcting the few the proud the corrupt to high political office.
Oh yes, of course. Too stupid to realise...what again? What has TEH EVAL RICH CONSPARICY done with the US that has degraded and is destroying it?
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As far as the middle east is concerned I can agree that would shouldn't force democracy upon them. We should provide them the opportunity to have one if they so choose. Which they do not have currently.
Then you are argueing semantics. In a republic, the people can vote into another system. All that is takes is stability and then there can be a peaceful government change.
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And I don't have a TV. I don't get my news from CNN or Fox or NBC. I get my news from NPR (the ONLY major domestic news group to actually air most opinions), the BBC, and a few other english language news publications. I'm rabidly opposed to many social issues in our country. I think the MPAA, the MRIA, and their friends all need to be launched into the sun. the Republocrats (thats the Republican and Democratic parties for those who still think we are a 2 party system) thrown in jail and gets us some new political parties.
All of these sentiments come from swallowing things fed to you, not by the republicans or democrats, which most Americans do (unfortunately) but third parties.
I don't get it. You're just as bad as any CNN-addicted American, just on a different side.
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Now. I don't like our country. I am under no illusions as to where I stand in it. But I do know that I am going to do my hardest to change it. Fuck the commies, their plans were shit, fuck the founding fathers, they plans or worked due to a mistake early on, and fuck the american public because they are retarded and intellectually impotent.
Here we see your true colors. Another aristocrat planning to change everything, popular opinion be damned, because 'he knows better.'
Ho-hum, another throwback to the middle ages. You would be a lot more comforatable in pre-US Afghanistan than here.
-Kills Commies
"Still if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all of the odds against you and only a precious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."