Leadcounsel...
...I try not to post twice in rapid fire, but I just wanted to point up that the U.S. no longer has a free market economy and is not and never was a democracy.
I don't know how you define capitalism, but Marx defined it in mercantilist terms, which is far from a free market. And, frankly, we have a mercantilist system--just think of the slogan, "it's the economy, stupid," and you can recognize what I'm on about. It doesn't matter that it was Clinton's slogan; it's been the truth since at least FDR.
In a democracy, each issue is put before a public vote. We have a republic, where most of the voting is done by alleged representatives. And more to the point, we have a constitutional, limited, republic, which simply means that government has its job and exceeding that is illegal--and illegal is probably a perfect word for it as it is, too.
...I try not to post twice in rapid fire, but I just wanted to point up that the U.S. no longer has a free market economy and is not and never was a democracy.
I don't know how you define capitalism, but Marx defined it in mercantilist terms, which is far from a free market. And, frankly, we have a mercantilist system--just think of the slogan, "it's the economy, stupid," and you can recognize what I'm on about. It doesn't matter that it was Clinton's slogan; it's been the truth since at least FDR.
In a democracy, each issue is put before a public vote. We have a republic, where most of the voting is done by alleged representatives. And more to the point, we have a constitutional, limited, republic, which simply means that government has its job and exceeding that is illegal--and illegal is probably a perfect word for it as it is, too.