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Cynicus Emeritus

(172 posts)
3. Do we have a democracy
Tue Jan 8, 2013, 09:52 PM
Jan 2013

or do we have a society where a minority of Wall St elitists with much money call the shots, and the rest of us dance their jig and pay their bills, just as the many did in Syria and in Sadam's Sunni Iraq and in the former South Africa.

A democracy is dependent upon equal rights, equal and appropriate representation of all. Without this basic premise of fairness for all and we will have an elitist plutocracy where the poor get screwed and the rich always get richer.

Unless we turn the USA around we don't have much leeway to make us a nation of equal opportunity.

yeah, a conservative coworker says the same thing Skittles Jan 2013 #1
but, they claim, he despises his white side BainsBane Jan 2013 #2
It's an idea that kind of worries me because of it's subtlety loyalsister Jan 2013 #5
Do we have a democracy Cynicus Emeritus Jan 2013 #3
I thought he was Hawaiian. Buzz Clik Jan 2013 #4
And what is the "mulatto" thing? DirkGently Jan 2013 #6
Interesting... loyalsister Jan 2013 #7
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