RE: What is your opinion about Communism?
November 24, 2017 at 8:20 am
(This post was last modified: November 24, 2017 at 8:38 am by The Industrial Atheist.)
Wololo Wrote:I would contend that the UK and US are about as democratic as the USSR was communist. Both cloak themselves in the language of deomcracy, but use the substantial forms of oligarchical political systems (the US is a flat out replication of the Roman republic in the new world, just found a new way to give the patrician vote the most weight).
You won't get an argument from me there. Well I'm not familiar with UK politics. But the corporations buy the candidates through campaign contributions. The biggest sellouts usually win because they have the most money.
The dems are a bit less bought off and so they try to do something halfway decent from time to time. But overall the wealthy and corporations get what they want.
Even with the ACA, which was an improvement we still have the private insurance companies price gouging everybody. We just had regulations on how the money they brought in was spent (less on CEO bonuses and such)
And they had to explain to a comittee why they're price gouging.
The fact that everybody has to buy private insurance I'm sure is making them loads of cash.
Our healthcare and country in general can only improve so much until we have truly clean elections.
