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woo me with science

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1. Real representative democracy poses a problem to banks and corporations.
Fri Aug 9, 2013, 12:17 PM
Aug 2013

It is impossible to ensure that wealth and power remain and continue to grow in the same hands over generations when the system is designed to transfer power every few years.

What we witness in our country is their solution to this problem.

By purchasing both parties and the halls of government, they ensure that transfer of power is a myth, merely a facade. By ensuring that corporate interests are ensconced in government no matter which party is in power, they get the equivalent of a hereditary system of kings. Elected office is passed from figurehead to figurehead over the years, but the predatory policies you describe can be enacted without real opposition, and the real wealth and power are funneled over time to the same "family," so to speak.



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