Too far towards democracy? Could you explain what you mean there? It feels like we are continuously headed toward plutocracy (Citizens United and the like just codified it) rather than democracy, but perhaps I misunderstand what you are trying to say.
Cheers, Judah On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:07 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Your pendulum description is right on with what I think about American > politics, only instead of slowing down and eventually settling in the > middle it accelerates with each swing. > > I'm afraid we've gone to far towards democracy, given up too much, to go > back peacefully now. But then again, maybe that's the thing. Larry and I > are equally valuable, as opposite poles? > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> > wrote: > > > > > I do not think they are capitalists, I think that it is a plutocracy. Any > > notion that there has been a mostly capitalist economy in the country > > should have ended with "to big to fail". > > > > I believe that there have been times when our country has been more > > capitalist and less capitalist. Capitalism seems to end up creating large > > enough winners that they quickly work on capturing the governmental means > > of regulation and move toward a plutocracy in which the winners cannot, > via > > any normal economic process, be anything other than winners. That is, > they > > turn to extra-economic means to solidify their place in a plutocracy. > > > > Eventually (at least previously), there is enough push back that the > > plutocracy gets torn down a fair bit and the pendulum swings more toward > > the socialist end of the spectrum. Even at this point, we've always been > > significantly more capitalist than many economies, but certainly less so > > than at other points in our history. > > > > Gradually, however, regulation starts to get eroded in name of business > > nimbleness and success and that seems to work for awhile until > > consolidation of money leads to a consolidation of power and we move back > > toward a plutocracy. > > > > I'd like to think that there is a way to achieve a reasonable balance and > > make a stable environment where we have a lower level of regulation but > do > > not have a situation that tends toward plutocracy. I'm not sure if that > is > > really possible, though, the environment for business and government may > > just be too dynamic to find a stable state. Not really sure. > > > > Cheers, > > Judah > > > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:08 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Do think the ruling class in America today is "capitalists"? > > > > > > Open question to the group. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:370066 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
