The purpose of our government
Submitted by bunsk on Sat, 12/03/2016 - 7:19pm
Its purpose is to protect capital from the people.
How would government policy be different if the people had a say? Would we have DAPL, or fossil fuel subsidies in the billion$, or tax cuts for the romney$ and trump$, or the war on drugs? Would Wall St. thieves be walking free and keeping their ill-gotten gains? Do you think our representatives - dem or gop - don't know how we feel about those things? That's why they take great pains to make sure we're never asked about it, and heaven forbid we should ever be allowed a vote on any of it.
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Yup
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
– Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter I, Part II On the Expence of Justice
Hence voting restricted to property owners.
Until unseemly events as the Reform Acts in 19thC Britain, reflecting pressures seen on the Continent (see 1830, 1848/9).
Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.
After educating myself, or re-educating myself,
over the last ten years I've come to the conclusion that this political system is what keeps the ruling class in power, and that it was designed to do that from the beginning. So I've concluded working within the system is fruitless and in effect detrimental in that it perpetuates and expands the condition.
You're right, that's why there is never any discussion about changing this political system where Congress has an approval rating in the low teens, at times below ten percent. That is astounding that a country like this, purported to be the greatest democracy on earth, the greatest democracy ever created for that matter, can continue along year after year, decade after decade with a political system so few trust without any movement to change it.
that makes us radicals...
we reject the system and want to dismantle it; I'd say, while we're at it, the current social order isn't working all that well either...
Yep. The little guy doesn't matter.
But establishment Democrats think that we'll get excited about making history.
Sat, 12/03/2016 - 9:59pm —
Sat, 12/03/2016 - 9:59pm — psychodrew
I think that's mainly claimed as a distraction so the 99% don't notice that they're about to become history or that, without a prompt change to actual democracy, within decades there will likely be nobody around to read history.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.