Agreed. Its a oligarchy in the form of a plutocracy. I sometimes wonder if it hasn't been this way since the Civil War, or is it fully an oligarchy because of the Citizens United Supreme Court Ruling around 2011? For psychotic mania, as an example, all I need to do is look at the riots of 2020 tolerated deliberately in democratic party cities. For codification of this, all I need to quote is the declaration of the new Manhattan DA on prosecutorial policy. https://news.yahoo.com/manhattan-da-apos-halt-prison-234002324.html Keynesian economics can work if there is an intellectual ROI. So if we printed money and invested in something with huge benefits to ourselves, such as pushing tissue engineering achievements, energy triumphs, AI, and pollution abatement technologies, we couldn't lose. As you suggested in your previous epistle, us serfs don't get to choose. Spud.
-----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> To: Everything List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 4, 2022 8:22 pm Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy You need to remember that both the Dems and the Reps take campaign money from the same financial and corporate entities. They are both beholden to the same people, as latter day forms of vassals. The republicans are just more direct in their insistence on promoting banks, financial companies (which own most corporate shares) and the corporations. The Reps have in recent years gone off into some sort of psychotic mania. The Dems are more willing to use Keynesian tools, which the corporations like when the economy goes into the tank. Note how Obama got more campaign dollars than McCain. The whole system is really F#*&k'd to the core. LC On Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 5:42:06 AM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: >From The New York Times: The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy What’s often called the crisis of American democracy is the result not of too much democracy but of too little. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/opinion/us-democracy-constitution.html?smid=em-share -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/54544572-1757-451c-956f-a47f7dd778abn%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/826536318.1562818.1641537364450%40mail.yahoo.com.
