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Those 50% soon change into the .1% and with a democratic process you find folks like cambridge analytica who learn how to use propaganda to manipulate the masse
by geggam 7y ago
Those 50% soon change into the .1% and with a democratic process you find folks like cambridge analytica who learn how to use propaganda to manipulate the masses.
It is a terrible idea but quite common in history, you can also read history to learn why its terrible.
Plato wrote in The Republic, “And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.”
- andrepd 7y agoI wonder what's your alternative then? Democracy is flawed, but newsflash: so is the world. The world is a messy place, and democracy kinda works, at least better than most other options.
- geggam 7y agoA nation of laws, when the laws are followed and applied to everyone you have a fair and reasonable situation. The US was created as a Constitutional Republic with the constitution binding the govt. The govt has used its powers to erode that binding and in doing so created the federal reserve which has been the problem causing most of the financial issues. When you have a group of people who can create currency replacing money ( a store of value ) then you have a group of people who are unstoppable. I will leave you with this... William Pitt made this statement: "Let the American people go into their debt-funding schemes and banking systems, and from that hour their boasted independence will be a mere phantom." He realized the maxim that Rothschilds laid down as fundamental: "Let us control the money of a country and we care not who makes its laws."