Wealthy corporations rule. With their money and lobbyists, they dictate to the government. Governments accommodate the corporations, thus destroying the middle class. People suffer, getting more and more desperate and more cynical. Until... (fill in the blank)
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(Not a dig/jab - sincerely asking) Do you have a better system?
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Replying to @deepta_jyoti
Democracy. The situation I described above is a plutocracy, not a democracy. So yes, the "better system" is a representative democracy no longer undercut by the undue influence of corporate and billionaire money.

Jan 21, 2023 · 12:21 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @deepta_jyoti
THIS!!!
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Replying to @marwilliamson @deepta_jyoti
You must mean People’s Democracy, as in China. Western politics is too censoring that one cant even critically analyze what are better in another system. Liberal democracy is fundamentally flawed. Always lead to the situation where interests of capital dictate
Replying to @marwilliamson @deepta_jyoti
As history shows, representative democracy is easier said than done. The worst parts of human nature always seem to find a way to creep in and corrupt its purity. Libertarians might say that representitives are the problem. But at scale, it's impossible not to delegate decision.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @deepta_jyoti
Representative democracy isn’t democracy. It’s something that allows oligarchy