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- Sun May 05, 2024 3:41 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
US State Department doesn't care for anti-plutocratic, left-leaning politics, surprise, surprise. Human Rights Watch isn't too kind to Bolivia, either. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/bolivia?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwudexBhDKARIsAI-GWYVt6FhTxEK1Vx4Jm2UyvoC-z3ZuyJxuLGFLV...
- Sun May 05, 2024 3:07 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
US State Department doesn't care for anti-plutocratic, left-leaning politics, surprise, surprise. Human Rights Watch isn't too kind to Bolivia, either. https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/bolivia?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwudexBhDKARIsAI-GWYVt6FhTxEK1Vx4Jm2UyvoC-z3ZuyJxuLGFLV...
- Sun May 05, 2024 1:44 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
I would challenge you to show me any modern democracy that doesn't have elements of plutocracy in it. Bolivia. Its current president Luis Arce is no plutocrat. He has an interesting political history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Arce A democracy resisting its wealthy elites faces serious hea...
- Sun May 05, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
Here in America, the poor can rise to the top, though, and the rich aren't automatically able to gain political power. True, anybody can get political power if they can raise enough money . The candidate with the biggest war chest wins. That's objectively false. I've seen analyses asking that very ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
It surprises me that anyone can think that America is a democracy. It isn't. America is a plutocracy wearing a democracy's shirt, and not a very clean one at that. I would challenge you to show me any modern democracy that doesn't have elements of plutocracy in it. Here in America, the poor can ris...
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
- Sat May 04, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
that ship has already sailed, imho. (Stated in regards to democracy) One of the biggest problems in America today is that people don't realize how good things are. We really do have democracy. It isn't perfect. Lots of room for improvement, but we basically have it. If we ever lose it, people will ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:04 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: trump off the CO ballot
- Replies: 189
- Views: 25711
Re: trump off the CO ballot
that ship has already sailed, imho. (Stated in regards to democracy) One of the biggest problems in America today is that people don't realize how good things are. We really do have democracy. It isn't perfect. Lots of room for improvement, but we basically have it. If we ever lose it, people will ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 2:52 am
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: The Religion Thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 33636
Re: The Religion Thread
"A step back in time': America's Catholic Church sees an immense shift toward the old ways" https://www.yahoo.com/news/step-back-time-americas-catholic-040718410.html In case you're interested. Vatican II didn't really work out very well for the Catholic Church. Liberalisation in general ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Everything Forum
- Topic: Planet America
- Replies: 895
- Views: 222214
Re: Planet America
Meanwhile, our once and (potentially) future President is on trial. There are plenty of opinions on the subject, but, honestly, people just aren't talking about it. And I'll bet that not one person in 10, especially those ones that have the opinions, could tell you what the (allegedly?) criminal asp...