On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 1:36 AM spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Its a oligarchy in the form of a plutocracy. I sometimes wonder if it > hasn't been this way since the Civil War, > Plutocracy is nothing new and so cannot be the root cause of the difficulties we've been having in the last five years or so. Plutocracy exists in every society except for pure communism, and there we see a total concentration of power with the state having every bit of it, there are no secondary power centers around rich private citizens. So in communism the politicians have all the power, especially the top guy, thus the politicians don't need money, they can do whatever they want without it. For that reason I prefer plutocracy to communism, although I recognize that when the poorest 50% of Americans possess less wealth than the poorest half of China's citizens, as is the case today, and when the world's richest 2,750 billionaires have more wealth than the poorest 4,600,000,000 fellow inhabitants of planet Earth it's an unstable situation and you're really asking for trouble. > *> all I need to do is look at the riots of 2020 tolerated deliberately in > democratic party cities.* > Oh for Darwin's sake!! Every riot in the USA that occurred in the last century or more was absolutely trivial compared with the riot that happened in Washington DC on January 6, 2021, the day the House and Senate and the Vice President were meeting to certify the 2020 election and decide who the next president of the republic and commander in chief of the most powerful military on the planet should be. And none of those rioters were Democrats, they were members of the republican party, or I should say the Antidemocratic Party, and they were encouraged to do so by politicians who also belonged to the Antidemocratic Party. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> cdt -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv24%2BNzc0B7JXFEhXWg5pe%2BqGtyR0_pO4ZYnXSqDG5LAKw%40mail.gmail.com.
