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Originally posted by Bobby Fissure
It was in 1980.
Democracies in North America and Europe give us the choice between tweedle dee and tweedle dum: sanitized candidates approved by the mass media and the lobby groups. In other words, you end up with a leader who is a mere figurehead, and your life doesn't change much no matter who pretends to rule the farcical regime.
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That's right 1980; no wonder I remember it - I was 4 yrs. older then in 1976.
What you describe is something structural marxists use to define our democracy in its role in a capitalist system - in the final analysis, democracy is always a tool to perpetuate and legitimize a capitalist system .