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2014-04-15 Home Front: Politix

US is an oligarchy not a democracy, says scientific study

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Posted by Fred 2014-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Yeah....I'd probably agree with that, it's gotten to that point.

It takes a hundred ranchers in Nevada with guns to even get a local news station to cover the goings-on these days. I'm pretty sure I have been reduced to an inert wage slaving tax beast. I step out of line, they gut me; house, job, bank account, credit rating- gone.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2014-04-15 02:37|| 2014-04-15 02:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Id rather it be a Republic of laws, where the individual is sovereign. It was pretty close to that once upon a time.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-15 02:49|| 2014-04-15 02:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Lest we fergit, 1990's CLINTONISM = FASCISM IS THE NEW COMMUNISM.

* Fascism = is merely "LIMITED COMMUNISM",
* Authoritarianism = is merely "LIMITED TOTALITARIANISM.
* Nationalism = "LIMITED GLOBALISM".
* Liberalism/Libertarianism = "LIMITED CENTRALISM".

And other...

Everybody in DC likes to argue FASCISM-VS-COMMUNISM, but nobody wants to discuss or talk about SOCIALISM-GOVTISM [Statism, State Capitalism/Cronyism, etc].

I liked the way the post-Soviet Russians said it, i.e. COMMUNIST-CAPITALISM = "COMMPITALISM".

But I digress ...

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-15 03:18|| 2014-04-15 03:18|| Front Page Top

#4 To put it short: The United States is no democracy, but actually an oligarchy.

And still they come.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-15 03:44|| 2014-04-15 03:44|| Front Page Top

#5 This is news?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-15 03:48|| 2014-04-15 03:48|| Front Page Top

#6 The correct term for the age of Obama is "autocratic collectivism".

Posted by no mo uro 2014-04-15 05:22|| 2014-04-15 05:22|| Front Page Top

#7 This is news?

Yes, because the Permanent Party Propaganda Machine and it's Teachers Union agents refuse to teach this little fact in our schools in order to keep the subjects docile. Got to keep the rubes obedient to the decrees of people who sit for life and are unaccountable to the people. If it was a real republic, all elements of the government would be subject to the 'consent' of the governed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-15 08:21|| 2014-04-15 08:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Disarm the federal bureaus.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-15 09:14|| 2014-04-15 09:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Who wants to live in a democracy? I want the Republic back.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-04-15 09:43|| 2014-04-15 09:43|| Front Page Top

#10 The correct term for the age of Obama is "autocratic collectivism".

Which is also the way to describe Bolshevism (i.e. "Dictatorship of the Party").

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2014-04-15 10:24|| 2014-04-15 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 We're a democracy the same way that Venezuela is.

And we are no longer a constitutional anything.

Posted by Iblis 2014-04-15 10:28|| 2014-04-15 10:28|| Front Page Top

#12 Can't really argue against this or the comments here.

A republic is nice... if you can keep it.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-15 11:40|| 2014-04-15 11:40|| Front Page Top

#13 Every time there's an election we get to choose between two crooks. Then they water down our votes with illegal aliens, dead people, cartoon characters and people who vote in one state and then drive to another state and vote there. I don't believe there is a single honest man in all of Washington DC, Sacramento or sitting on any of the city councils in any city in the country.

All my life people have been telling me that it's still better than anywhere else. But I'm not sure anymore and even if it is, that's not good enough. Just because it's better than Libya, Russia or China doesn't mean it's acceptable.

Social Security, MediCare, ObamaCare, Affirmative Action, Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae and Sallie Mae are all scams perpetrated by a kleptocracy that is dedicated to enriching themselves and maintaining power at the expense of the rest of us. They keep it all under wraps with a media that is just as corrupt as they are so we have to get the news from Iranians.

They refuse to keep their spending within their means, they refuse to secure the border, they get us involved in foreign wars in which we have no interest and they tax the hell out of us.

After paying my taxes this year I'm mad as hell. It's nothing more than armed robbery.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-15 11:59|| 2014-04-15 11:59|| Front Page Top

#14 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
The American Dream

George Carlin was right!

Posted by Airandee 2014-04-15 11:59|| 2014-04-15 11:59|| Front Page Top

#15 Ebbang - Yes, I wake up with it on this date every year. Generally lasts no more than four hours. It was so bad in 2012, I drove up to my urologist at Emory. By the time I had the car parked, it was over. I just came back home and took a long nap :-(

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-15 12:58|| 2014-04-15 12:58|| Front Page Top

#16 I needed a long walk and a stiff drink to cool off.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-15 13:40|| 2014-04-15 13:40|| Front Page Top

#17 ...but I'm still pissed.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-04-15 13:41|| 2014-04-15 13:41|| Front Page Top

#18 I'm with #9 Rob.

Posted by Barbara 2014-04-15 14:40|| 2014-04-15 14:40|| Front Page Top

#19 Science is an oligarchy.

Posted by Snusort Spomose2148 2014-04-15 15:03|| 2014-04-15 15:03|| Front Page Top

#20 Don't forget the gerrymandering of safe voting districts that disenfranchise 49% of the voters. You can't gerrymander based on race but you can sure do it by party affiliation.

Posted by Craiger Grinter2039 2014-04-15 15:21|| 2014-04-15 15:21|| Front Page Top

#21 Two guys, an official sounding company, and opinion becomes fact.

I may or may not agree with the opinion but it doesn't really sound scientific to me.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-15 15:42|| 2014-04-15 15:42|| Front Page Top

#22 ..doesn't have to. When was the last time you remember SCOTUS telling petitioners they had to go through the Article V process rather than put their action before the judiciary to change the Constitution?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-15 16:45|| 2014-04-15 16:45|| Front Page Top

#23 Comeon Ebbang - tell us how you really feel!

I'm with you. And lets not forget the 49% of the population which pays No Federal Taxes at all - yet still get the right to spend the money of those who do - which usually means giving it to themselves.

And the concept that Welfare and the like are 'Mandatory spending' - and it grows and grows each and every year. WTF is that? Why are they 'mandatory' so they get pushed ahead of things which really are the Federal Government's responsibility: Defense of our nation and our borders. Oh no - we can't spend money defending our borders becase we have this 'mandatory' spending to give to the illegal aliens who violate those same borders.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-15 17:26|| 2014-04-15 17:26|| Front Page Top

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