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Originally Posted by WFCY
The Corperates.
US politics is really a system of Polyarchy, a Federal-Republic with a two party facade and some useless choiceless voting going on in the peripherals. I wouldn't really call it democracy with a capital D.
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Depends on whether you mean implicate of explicate control.
I don't buy the conspiracy theories. But the influence peddling is so overwhelming that the multi-Nationals do shape the policies of both parties.
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"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another--their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.
-- Ayn Rand
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