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yurbud

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Tue Apr 2, 2013, 12:21 PM Apr 2013

Which countries have come up with a form of democracy that ISN'T dominated by Wall St & banks?

We talk about various ways to fix our system here, from campaign finance reform to making it easier for third parties to get into the game, but it occurs to me that nearly all governments ignore the will of the people and do what the bankers tell them on key issues like austerity, bailouts, wars, trade deals, and the like.

Maybe Iceland, Venezuela, and some of the other Bolivarian democracies in South America do it to some degree, but what do they do or what else can be done to make our democracy real instead of a rubber stamp for whatever the already wealthy want?

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Which countries have come up with a form of democracy that ISN'T dominated by Wall St & banks? (Original Post) yurbud Apr 2013 OP
well, this response isn't encouraging. yurbud Apr 2013 #1
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