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The New DU. Reply #62: It's been that way for decades -- perhaps throughout American history
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Mon Oct-02-06 08:01 AM
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| 62. It's been that way for decades -- perhaps throughout American history |
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We have nothing close to a real democracy today. Them with the money are already in control. Have been for a long while.
American history has always been the tug and pull between the general idea of populist democracy and control of the system by the elite. And between this zxegment of the elite against that segment of the elite.
Control by the elite oligarchs went into hyperdrive in the 70's, and has been accelerating ever since. Only the scale changes, as the scale of society gets bigger and technology fuels it.
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