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In reply to the discussion: A question for HRC supporters ... [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)and the manipulative message of the OP, that votes are owed based on party, is front and center in the corporate perversion of how Americans are taught to understand our fake "democracy."
The predatory agenda of oligarchy is not possible if Americans understand the duty of candidates to represent their interests. That's why so much time, energy, and money have been poured into perverting politics into vapid team sport, instead.
You've got to hand it to our .1 percent. They are nothing if not forward-thinking and creative. What can you do, when you dismantle a 240-year-old representative system of government from the inside and replace it with oligarchy and even nascent fascism? What do you do with the shell of that system? The elections? The parties?
We have a *corporate oligarchy* focused on profit, so the solution should not be surprising: Don't throw away the shell, the outward trappings, of democracy. Keep it, because it's USEFUL.
1. It's USEFUL because it sustains the illusion of democracy.
2. And it's USEFUL because it's PROFITABLE.
Hence what we have seen done to our democratic process. Our presidential elections have been turned from civic exercise into vapid entertainment. From exercise in democracy into an obscene, hyped, massively profitable corporate pageant, a sports event that, as the Princeton study showed, has virtually *nothing* to do with the actual direction of policy or of governance in this country anymore. It is the illusion of democracy, in which the people's voices have no real impact.
Princeton study: U.S. no longer an actual democracy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025405658
We have TWO Superbowls in this country now. Two major, vapid, nationally hyped and advertised sporting events in which the people are urged to take a side and mindlessly cheer for their side to win. And from which the media oligarchs, the political oligarchs, and the banking oligarchs profit BILLIONS.
And the oligarchs are buying up new private islands with the profits from it all.