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Originally Posted by kryptonium241
Here's the way I see it: The US has 300 million people, thereabouts. The top ten percent may have the money, but they each only get one vote. As long as the election process isn't rigged, if the average folks would select a candidate from their own socioeconomic class they could support the candidacies of those individuals. Look, if the Egyptians could use FaceBook to unite millions for revolution why can't we use modern technology to end the dominance of the Democrats and Republicans by giving s/o with our own interests a real shot at winning?
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In theory that's true, but in practice, the economic overlords control the media, they have controlled and gutted education for many years, so for all practical purposes the 90% are incapable of opposing them - as evidenced by the last 30 years of elections and the state of public debate as seen, as allowed to be seen, in the media.
People hoped at one point that the internet would promote freedom, but it is being used to spread disinformation, paranoia, phoney conspiracies, and divide-and-conquer hysteria at an even faster rate than it spreads freedom.
GFY here is a perfect example of that - in fact, we are one of the best examples you could ever find.