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That's not democracy. That's doublespeak. The US's "Founding Fathers" hated democracy and stressed it was a republic. Those slaveowners wanted to protect minori
by calibraxis 11y ago
That's not democracy. That's doublespeak. The US's "Founding Fathers" hated democracy and stressed it was a republic. Those slaveowners wanted to protect minorities against majority rule — the wealthy minority. (Obviously they didn't mean African Americans and women.)
Later politicians coopted the term "democracy", as marketing. One source to learn more is Graeber's "The Democracy Project". (http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/democracy-what-is-it-good-for-david-graeber-and-gar-alperovitz http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/democracy-what-is-it-good-...)
Pushing a button every few years for your new corporate-sponsored king isn't meaningful democratic participation.
- MarcusVorenus 11y agoObama is a union-sponsored king actually, so it's all good I guess.
- lumberjack 11y agoNeither Obama nor Clinton are sponsored by unions. Their major sponsors are Wall St, universities, SV and Hollywood, i.e. typical wealthy democrats. http://www.opensecrets.org/PRES08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638 http://www.opensecrets.org/PRES08/contrib.php?cid=N00009638 Maybe you were thinking about Bernie Sanders?
- MarcusVorenus 11y agoUnions don't donate directly, they make independent campaign expenditures through Super PACs. Look in the Independent Expenditures tab in the page you gave me.
- rhino369 11y agoHating democracy is a massive overstatement. It was designed as a democratically elected representative republic. They didn't want a mob ruling, but at the base, the people select the representatives. That is how virtually every democracy runs itself.