Democracy??

  

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      A wee follow up on my previous post, "Milking It", with a further look at how our "democracy" works. A picture of the merry-go-round of the rich, privileged and pampered parasites that gorge on the wealth created by you and I, the ordinary citizen. If you have any illusions that this system is there to benefit you and I, you are naive in the extreme, we are being screwed on a daily basis and we tolerate this situation. Thanks Loam for the link.

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Proof - Money Rules.

 

    So, two very respected professors from Princeton and Northwestern universities, do an extensive study and come up with what you and I already know, “America is not a democracy”. Well it is nice to get confirmation of your opinion from such established institutions. Of course, we are also very sure that if the two learned professors took the methods across the Atlantic to the UK, they would come up with the same findings, money rules the UK. Is there anybody out there that still believes that there is such a thing as Western democracy?

This from Roar Mag:

       It’s not every day that an academic article in the arcane world of American political science makes headlines around the world, but then again, these aren’t normal days either. On Wednesday, various mainstream media outlets — including even the conservative British daily The Telegraph — ran a series of articles with essentially the same title: “Study finds that US is an oligarchy.” Or, as the Washington Post summed up: “Rich people rule!” The paper, according to the review in the Post, “should reshape how we think about American democracy.”

       The conclusion sounds like it could have come straight out of a general assembly or drum circle at Zuccotti Park, but the authors of the paper in question — two Professors of Politics at Princeton and Northwestern University — aren’t quite of the radical dreadlocked variety. No, like Piketty’s book, this article is real “science”. It’s even got numbers in it! Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University took a dataset of 1,779 policy issues, ran a bunch of regressions, and basically found that the United States is not a democracy after all:

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WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON---.???

        To the cops hassling the protesters taking part in the world wide occupy movement, who and what are you protecting? Do you think that the corrupt oligarchs that sit in their plush offices counting their millions, give a shit about you? Do you think your pensions will be safe while the pensions of all others are cut? Do you think that your kids education will be fine as they cut the spending on education? Do you think that your kids will get a good job as unemployment keeps rising?

        You're on the wrong side friend, you are portecting the wealth and power of those who will in the end shaft you, just as they do everybody else. You are part of that 99%, you are not part of the 1% you are protecting, get onboard the right side, get among your own people, you are being used by a ruthless, corrupt, duplicious oligarchy, and to them you are just fodder for the machine, you are expendable.

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