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Originally posted by punkworld
"these are things that big business and elected officials do in our name.. not things we have great control over."
Personally, I have more faith in democracy, and believe it <b>can</b> make a difference if you vote for the right person or party. However, if what you are saying now would be true, it would refute democracy as a good political system.
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we don't have great control over them... in case you didn't notice the media is controlled by a few big players that cosy up to governments for business interests.. now you can't have a real democracy without the flow of real information.. sadly more often than not we're fed government/business propaganda in lieu of it.
a democracy actually isn't the best political system in terms of a pairing with capitalism... business and governments have to put up with whinging populaces when overtaking small countries for their resources.. thats why western governments aim for a apathetic/uninformed/misinformed populace.. so they can go about the "amoral" mechanisms of bettering their country in the capitalist system. Why do you think the US prefers to install dictators in their territories of interest? benign dictatorships function very well in the capitalist system.