Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "How Democracy Turns to Oligarchy!" video.

  1. Thomas, the US never was a functional democracy. Remember the people weren’t allowed into the first Constitutional Convention, May 25 to September 17, 1787. The “Founding Fathers” were concerned their interests (Slavery) would be compromised with any input from the people. Also remember Washington was a very wealthy man who grew rich by selling the land of slaughtered Native Americans to the plutocrats for their slave plantations. There was even the author of the Declaration of Independence who sold his children with Sally Hemings into slavery. So things are not always as they appear or as they are sold to the people. And since then, the plutocrats who have always controlled the US have played a game of allowing enough “democracy” to give the illusion of freedom, but not enough to lose control of power. After all, the “Founding Fathers” learnt early on, it is easier to control a slave when he is under the illusion he is free. Since then the plutocrats have given a little (e.g. 17th & 19th Amendments) and have taken a little (e.g. 22nd Amendment & Taft-Hartley Act & Citizens United vs. FEC), but their control of power was never in question. So Thomas, talking about US democracy is like talking about Rocking Horse droppings; understand most of state history is just the remnants of Disney and Hollywood productions. So instead of looking at Greece to see how “democracies” fail; it may be more beneficial to look at Rome and understand how Empires fail. Understand the Bread and Circuses or MSNBC & Maddow; understand the clipping of coins or the printing of money; there are many similarities to the contemporary US. If you want factual US history, you have to reject the fabricated propaganda history of the perpetual plutocratic government and look elsewhere (Howard Zinn, Peter Kuznick). And always remember, the people are just ignorant observers in the plutocrats’ grand scheme of Imperial World domination; the Useful Idiots of Empire that give mostly ignorant and tacit support to the crimes of Wall Street. Even Major General Smedley Butler’s “War is a Racket” is an excellent short book if you wish to understand the perpetual US role in Global Empire.
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