In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent asks why the media is obsessing over Obama’s Cheesecake Factory joke while largely ignoring allegations of Trump’s sexual assaults. Plus: Republicans prepare to cry election fraud.
Capitalism is incompatible with democracy. It’s a form of government- oligarchy. It’s more or less feudalism with extra math, and it’s an active competitor of democracy and rule of law.
You’re misunderstanding it bro. The peasants can totally have this sliver of democracy while the entire economic system is made up of thousands of competing oligarchies/plutocracies, allowed to be ruled by kings, with their own private militaries and propaganda operations, and grow wealthier than entire nation states. Nothing sus.
Capitalism is incompatible with democracy. It’s a form of government- oligarchy. It’s more or less feudalism with extra math, and it’s an active competitor of democracy and rule of law.
Exactly. Human greed ensures it.
You’re misunderstanding it bro. The peasants can totally have this sliver of democracy while the entire economic system is made up of thousands of competing oligarchies/plutocracies, allowed to be ruled by kings, with their own private militaries and propaganda operations, and grow wealthier than entire nation states. Nothing sus.