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All very sad. It is time to bring the wealthiest back to heel. Companies and individuals cannot be above the law or the states which sustain their lives and bus
by hkt 8y ago
All very sad. It is time to bring the wealthiest back to heel. Companies and individuals cannot be above the law or the states which sustain their lives and businesses will crumble. Time to take back control.
- president 8y agoIt is impossible to revert. Rich people own the world and unless they are willing to sacrifice their wealth/power, there is no other solution other than revolt/war.
- standerman 8y agoOr you can organize and vote. This is still a democracy.
- notdonspaulding 8y agoThis (the USA, at least) is a constitutional republic. You have representation and you have constitutional rights. In a democracy, a plurality of the people can vote to do whatever they want to you. In a constitutional republic, a supermajority has to change the nature of your rights in order to violate them. It's an important distinction.
- everybodyknows 8y agoA colorful illustration of the value of such checks on power would be the incident in which a single majority vote in the legislature of imperial Athens sufficed to send off a galley to their rebellious colony of Mytilene, with orders to put every male inhabitant to the sword. As it happened, the next day the assembly changed its mind, and sent off another galley rescinding the order. The second galley was indeed able to overtake the first in time. Thucydides attributed this to deliberate slowness by the captain of the first.
- Kalium 8y agoThe USA is a symmetric federalist constitutional republican representative democracy. This is a form of democracy. "Democracy" is a family of types of government, of which the absolute democracy many imagine in one form. A representative democracy is another.
- president 8y agoIn theory, yes. I won't hold my breath.
- hkt 8y agoGo and read about Jeremy Corbyn. The UK at least stands a chance of fighting this.