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Democracy is crap..
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RE: Democracy is crap..
(January 3, 2015 at 10:55 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: If you are American you do not live in a democracy you live in an oligarchy. A society run for the benefit of a small elite.
You may have some of the trappings of democracy but it is an illusion to blind you.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...ludes.html

That's why I don't vote. I'm not going to preserve the illusion that I have any say. If society is going to be run by the person with the biggest stick, I will act accordingly.
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Democracy is crap.. - by lifesagift - January 2, 2015 at 7:49 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by FreeTony - January 2, 2015 at 8:08 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by lifesagift - January 2, 2015 at 8:11 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - January 2, 2015 at 8:34 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by FreeTony - January 3, 2015 at 8:00 am
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by downbeatplumb - January 3, 2015 at 10:55 am
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by Natachan - January 3, 2015 at 11:12 am
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by downbeatplumb - January 3, 2015 at 12:15 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by tjakey - January 3, 2015 at 10:59 am
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by Chad32 - January 3, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by Thumpalumpacus - January 3, 2015 at 12:45 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by lifesagift - January 3, 2015 at 3:30 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by Minimalist - January 3, 2015 at 12:49 pm
RE: Democracy is crap.. - by Chad32 - January 3, 2015 at 4:10 pm

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