Let's Face It: Big Biz, Media & Politicians Don't Trust Real Democracy

[stopbush]

How else to explain their actions over the years?

They really believe that all would be lost if TRUE democracy were to break out in these United States. They'll let us have the outer shell of our supposed grand experiment, but when it gets right down to it, they know that a one-man, one-vote, voter-ACCOUNTABLE democracy would bring down their house of cards.

Our fight for democracy - at least the imagined democracy we thought we had - is a fight on all fronts against very powerful and very CO-ORDINATED interests.

BTW - due to limited thread title space, I omitted religion from my header...but then I realized that religion is sort of an amalgam of the Big Three I mentioned in the header.

[OneBlueSky]

1. more than that . . . they HATE democracy . . . n/t

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[400Years]

2. The Crisis of Democracy

is a book published in 1975 for the Trilateral Commission which basically states what you just said from the viewpoint of the elite. They fear that real democracy threatens their positions of power.

The crisis of democracy : report on the governability of democracies to the Trilateral Commission. by Crozier, Michel

[applegrove]

3. Those signing bonuses depend entirely on how fast they can increase

profit. Deregulating increases profit for a year. And that is $5 Million to the CEO. All he or she is interested in is that.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. They make maximum profits with minimum democracy.

Not sure that it's a matter of "trust" -- they just find it really, really inconvenient when they can get ratted out for ripping the country off.

[stopbush]

5. Privatize the profits while socializing the expenses.

who knew?