Of course it's not a democracy..NEVER has been. It's now an oligarchy headed by a bufoon narcissistic tyrant....haha..."democracy"..."They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy (Paul Street). The venerated Founding Fs never intended the hoi polloi to have a voice. We common peasants have always been the hostages of the owner, capitalist, largely sociopathic class.
Of course it's not a democracy..NEVER has been. It's now an oligarchy headed by a bufoon narcissistic tyrant....haha..."democracy"..."They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy (Paul Street). The venerated Founding Fs never intended the hoi polloi to have a voice. We common peasants have always been the hostages of the owner, capitalist, largely sociopathic class.
A few social/labor uprisings or revolutions notwithstanding, it seems the superfluously rich and powerful have always had the police and military ready to foremost protect their big-money/-power interests, even over the basic needs of the masses, to the very end.
Even in modern (supposed) democracies, the police and military can, and perhaps would, claim — using euphemistic or political terminology, of course — they have/had to bust heads to maintain law and order as a priority during major demonstrations, especially those against economic injustices.
Indirectly supported by a complacent, if not compliant, corporate news-media, which is virtually all mainstream news-media, the absurdly unjust inequities/inequalities can persist.
Perhaps there were/are lessons learned from those successful social/labor uprisings, with the clarity of hindsight, by more-contemporary big power/money interests in order to avoid any repeat of such great wealth/power losses (a figurative How to Hinder Progressive Revolutions 101, maybe)?
Of course it's not a democracy..NEVER has been. It's now an oligarchy headed by a bufoon narcissistic tyrant....haha..."democracy"..."They Rule: The 1% vs. Democracy (Paul Street). The venerated Founding Fs never intended the hoi polloi to have a voice. We common peasants have always been the hostages of the owner, capitalist, largely sociopathic class.
A few social/labor uprisings or revolutions notwithstanding, it seems the superfluously rich and powerful have always had the police and military ready to foremost protect their big-money/-power interests, even over the basic needs of the masses, to the very end.
Even in modern (supposed) democracies, the police and military can, and perhaps would, claim — using euphemistic or political terminology, of course — they have/had to bust heads to maintain law and order as a priority during major demonstrations, especially those against economic injustices.
Indirectly supported by a complacent, if not compliant, corporate news-media, which is virtually all mainstream news-media, the absurdly unjust inequities/inequalities can persist.
Perhaps there were/are lessons learned from those successful social/labor uprisings, with the clarity of hindsight, by more-contemporary big power/money interests in order to avoid any repeat of such great wealth/power losses (a figurative How to Hinder Progressive Revolutions 101, maybe)?
Why don't you read my post, and perhaps you can see yourself in there.
The topic needs to be be kept alive.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure. It is its natural manure