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You do not live in a democracy
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USA is the country that calls herself the first free country yadaydaayad.
But, all I can notice is that you actually do not have any influence on the govement.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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You are right, we have no influence on our government and how our representatives represent us. The real power lies in the corporation. The government has become their tool.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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um, if you want to have a voice, become a representative or a senator... isnt too hard. get yerself elected.


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Children, What's the sound,
Everybody look what's going down"

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Buddha5254]
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Don't forget union influence.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Evolving]
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Not just that.

I mean you got a two partiy. People in those partys are linked pretty good. They have the same mentors aka sponsors.

It reminds me of anyhypothetical situation where you can choose between Hitler and Stalin. No big difference at all. And oyu can choose among them.

The system that is so caled democracy, people used to call oligarhy.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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You speak the truth. The left wing wing and right wing are both appendages of the vulture.


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To call humans 'rational beings' does injustice to the term, 'rational.'  Humans are capable of rational thought, but it is not their essence.  Humans are animals, beasts with complex brains.  Humans, more often than not, utilize their cerebrum to rationalize what their primal instincts, their preconceived notions, and their emotional desires have presented as goals - humans are rationalizing beings.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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There are many factors, the biggest of which is the media which is truly owned by the corporations.

Through careful cencorship they are able to keep America ignorant and distracted by horse shit. When the election rolls around, the media tells the public what the issues are. Like in the last election, the biggest issue they could come up with to disagree on was social security??

The majority of the American people are disenfranchised with the system. 60 percent did not vote in the 2000 election. They would rather totally not pay attention.

This does not mean that the situation is hopeless, although it seems to be getting worse daily.

The problem, Crobih, is that nobody is paying a shit of attention, and even if they were, they aren't being told anything the least bit controvercial.

The dudes who wrote the First Amendment believed that the free flow of information is essential in finding out the truth.

This is as true today as it was 200 years ago. And now we have secret fucking courts releasing CLASSIFIED rulings...

Imagine the nerve to classify a court ruling....

Especially on a Constitutional issue!

Badamn.

But it can be fixed. It is just going to take a lot of smarts.


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"America: Fuck yeah!" -- Alexthegreat

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”  -- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.

The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. --Salena Zeto (9/23/16)

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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Democracy is not about getting what you want. It's about getting what the majority wants.


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"I have no valid complaint against hustlers. No rational bitch. But the act of selling is repulsive to me. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes." -Hunter S Thompson
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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Phluck]
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The majority doesn't vote.


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"America: Fuck yeah!" -- Alexthegreat

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”  -- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.

The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. --Salena Zeto (9/23/16)

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Senor_Doobie]
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Oh yeah.
Idiots.


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"I have no valid complaint against hustlers. No rational bitch. But the act of selling is repulsive to me. I harbor a secret urge to whack a salesman in the face, crack his teeth and put red bumps around his eyes." -Hunter S Thompson
http://phluck.is-after.us

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Phluck]
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Too bad the majority is retarded, mindless drones who panic at the drop of a hat.


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Lord you know it makes me high when you turn your love my way. Turn your love my waaaaaay, Yea.
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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: bluesky]
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Nah, the majority are fine. Look at the history of racism, slavery, the war on drugs and you'll find it took a tiny rich minority decades to instill and create fear in the majority. During slavery times the poor whites were so friendly to runaway blacks that the landowners panicked and had to start passing laws banning whites from helping them.

The minority at the top are the scumbags, we need to remove their influence first. Without 70 years of media influence would drugs really be such a worry to people? 100 years ago they were buying heroin over the counter and not giving it a second thought. It took decades to change that.


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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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It's more or less the same all over the world.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: zeronio]
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It's more or less the same all over the world.

Not true. I still believe that Candada (where I live, of course!) has something resembling a working government doing what is in the interests of the public.


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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: zeronio]
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....At least if voting is compulsory you know that at least 90-something % of the population are actually being represented...not a hell of a lot to ask once every four or so years, is it??

you get dubya and not even 50% of the people voted...  :confused:


People say that in a democracy there should be free choice and any attempt at forced voting is undemocratic, but isn't disenfranchising all felons permanently a recipe for disaster?...you get a section of the nation unable to have any say in what happens politically in the country which can only encourage them to think 'fuck everybody...' in the future  :frown:
 


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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: ruskifile]
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Let me notice something. Its not american people thing that some ladens hate america. Its the problem of american politics. Now, why do you allow that? I guess that is because of the thing that you have no ANY INFLUENCE on american politics.

Knowing that you do not have any influence on american politics, makes your undemocratic country.

Off course it is the problem of most world "democracies". But, anyway, just do not call it the way it is not.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Crobih]
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Americans don't pay much attention to politics.

Do not think for one second that the leaders of Congress do not fear the vote. They do. They are just confident in the fact that nobody is really paying attention.

The public COULD change the system if they cared. They don't.


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"America: Fuck yeah!" -- Alexthegreat

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.”  -- Thomas Jefferson

The greatest sin of mankind is ignorance.

The press takes [Trump] literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally. --Salena Zeto (9/23/16)

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Senor_Doobie]
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In america the Democratic Leadership Council has is now completely corporately governed, and then think that Bush takes advice and borrows money from Bill Gates. But you can't just blame america, look at Tony Blair and panacea, and McDonalds sponsering his party conferences. And what really hurts is when US gets involved with cheating and lying companies like Enron, then when they go down, the US goes down and everyone who relies on us goes down and there goes the global economy
if we dont get rid of this partnership with business and government we can forget about democracy.

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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: ruskifile]
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Don't know, don't care? DON'T VOTE !!!

Voting should be left up to the people who do care enough to get up off their asses and vote voluntarily.

I don't see how manditory voting would help.


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Re: You do not live in a democracy [Re: Baby_Hitler]
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i dont vote, i probably never will.

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