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In reply to the discussion: Authoritarian State Yet? [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)There is no existing term for an all pervasive extraction and control scam of this scope, depth, and magnitude with buy in of the controlled baked into the cake rather than icing to cover up the turd loaf.
Still, it may be fair to say we have never tested our system to see if we make collectively bad decisions or if the ability to decide is substantially an illusion. Different faces, rhetoric, coalitions to carefully arrive at predetermined outcomes for the benefit of unelected but always influential "stakeholders".
When you consider the state and ownership of major media, the money required for elections, ownership of proprietary voting machines, the disgusting degree of corporate capture and more open influences, the distribution of resources, and the revolving door factor that whatever we call it, it stinks to high heaven.