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Originally posted by bhutocracy
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.
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All of this talk about Democracy. Lest anyone forget, the USA is not a Democracy, we are a Republic.