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chervilant

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74. In the current manifestation of democracy

Sat May 25, 2013, 09:27 AM

May 2013

in this nation, the powerful among us have created the "two-tiered system" you've so eloquently described. The powerless among us are beginning to understand that the game is rigged, thanks to posts like yours, and sites like DU.

The "economic" behavior of our species is rumbling inexorably towards the global capitalism described by Marx. Less than 400 people on this planet--from more than fifty different countries, and comprised primarily of old, white males--own and/or control better than 45% of our planet's resources, including human resources. Do you recall what Marx predicted would happen when the Hoi Polloi recognized the weight of the shackles of this global oppression?

The corporate megalomaniacs who've usurped our media, our politics AND our global economy will be harder to eradicate than mange on a mongrel. But, just as we wouldn't blame the mongrel for its mange, so must we not blame the powerless for a system created, gradually and insidiously, by the powerful.

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