You can’t be a democracy and an oligarchy at the same time. Either the country belongs to all of us or the country belongs only to a few of us. This is the deepest existential question about who we are and who we want to be.

Mar 4, 2021 · 9:25 PM UTC

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We are being sold under this administration! Thank God for states’ rights! That’s how we will enact change. State by state!
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Dear @marwilliamson #USA is NOT a democracy - it's a Toxic Oligarchy. #HR1 is important - Also the movement with @SenSanders who run on Grassroot energy. bbc.com/news/blogs-echochamb… @janeosanders
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We are not a democracy we are a republic who taught you history?
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A democracy doesn't belong to all of us, it belongs to the most popular of us
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Actually democracies ALWAYS end up as oligarchies. That’s what republics are for.
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OK, you have articulated the problem. How do you get the people to reclaim their ownership from the powerful few?
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People are trying to own their own property?? Selfish! Take it away! It belongs to all of us!
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Given that it has not existed since the Neolithic, if ever, democracy can only be considered a goal to be worked towards. Oligarchies are run using rules rigged to benefit the elites. By the skin of our teeth, we just avoided something much worse: an autocracy run by whim.
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We are and always have been an oligarchy with a democratic form of government. Only way to change that is to vote out the bad ones. Not, as some believe, refusing to vote for the best option available.
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