MenKlash

It would appear that democracy benefits the rulers, as democracy alone has provided the most consistent means for those formerly in power to sleep and die in peace. And the same holds for the courtiers, nomenklatura, and apparatchiks. These sycophants need no longer dread midnight’s knife and muffled cries, and the subsequent crowning of a new king. The elite and bureaucracy can retire to their farms and while away their passing years without fear — their riches and posterity intact. As I see it now, democracy is not to the advantage of the demos, it is to the advantage of the power elite. Something to think about.

Better it goes into government so at least people can vote to change it.

We can’t change it. Politicians would still have their monopolical powers because they help each other. Don’t trust the government. Billionaires not only influence it, they also receive help from them.

Part of a larger quote, but I agree with it.

I don’t like representative democracy.

Under TRUE capitalism the market is free but regulated as needed.

The market can’t be free if it’s regulated. Any intromission of the State in any voluntary exchange is stepping in the natural rights of its citizens.

We don’t live in real capitalism, there is no regulation, the oligarchy has captured the agencies that were supposed to regulate the market.

The agencies are the oligarchy. The politicians and lobbyists benefit each other by the existence of regulations, taxation, subsidies, FIAT money, intellectual property, public licenses, monopolical privileges, etc.

Yes, we don’t live in “real capitalism” (that is, in a free-market setting), we live in a corporatocracy.

Touch some grass, please.

I’m really meant it. Saying an argumentum ad hominem is pretty childish for my taste.

Yes, because america falling into fascism

I’d like to know what is your definition of fascism.

I don’t know too much about the MAGA movement, as I’m not american, but thanks for sharing your views.

The problem is that they fall in a false dilemma.

Evaluating the world and the people around you with labels so generic as “left wing” or “right wing” is not useful at all. Another problem is being too politicized, as I think it can damage your relationships with others.

But not about the humanity, dignity, and freedom of people.

Are you referring to the recognition of the problems involving those concepts or the solutions proposed to fix them?

We can have different approaches and views about a variety of problems, but the concepts would be the same.

It doesn’t mean we should always make an agreement about how to solve them, but the idea of treating others who don’t think like me as “monsters” just because they are different is populist and dishonest.

Hating ideas is not the same as hating people.