Originally posted by sleeper
Originally posted by RedOctober90
"Democracy" in the USA is now something like "Halliburton VS Microsoft" or some thing like that.. with no chance for other parties to actually
make it into the elections.
It is capitalism which is incompatible with democracy.. for big business always gets into office over the man who actually has interests in helping
the people.
You obviously don't live in America or if you do you should get out more often.
Anyone can become rich in America, anyone can run for public office in America, anyone can be poor in America, anyone can be corrupt in America---the
corporations don't own anyone and are constantly being watched by their stock holders, the IRS, every branch in the government, the UN, the Middle
East, Europe, Canada and most importantly by Santa Clause.
it is YOU who doesn't get out often. 'capitalism' IS 'left wing' when taken to the monopolistic extremes it is enjoying today. if you think you
can go open a department store beside walmart and make it successful, i will willingly eat a thousand crow sandwiches.
or why don't you design a fuel-atomizing system that can give a tenfold increase in fuel economy? what? there is a law against it? what? someone
actually did just that, and was visited by the FBI the day after he filed for patent?
red october is 'right'. there is NO DEMOCRACY in america. there is only mass mind control through propaganda. people think they are free, until
they actually try and exercise freedom to do something that would upset the power balance that the power elite enjoy.
in a true democracy, they would welcome a better carburetor. 'lone wolf' inventors could enjoy the immense wealth generated by new inventions. the
way it is, in your glorious 'capitalistic' society, only a multinational corporation will get rich on any given new invention, and the idea becomes
the property of the corporation as well. the inventor might get a company logo coffee cup as a bonus for a good job, and the CEO will write himself a
million dollar bonus. that's how america works, these days, and it has more in common with totalitarianism than it does with freedom.
the truest thing you said, was that, "most importantly, 'santa clause' was watching". using a=6, b=12, c=18, 'santa clause' is 666. 'satan
clause' is more accurate.