I've noticed more and more that in Capitalist "Democracies" all over the world, the main two parties are getting more and more similar to each other, and basically just doing whatever the companies who own the media are telling them to.
Take Australia for example, over 50% of people support gay marriage but neither party does. Or the fact that most of the Western world has (without consulting the people) moved the length of copyright up to an entire lifetime plus 70 years, whereas most ordinary people who supposedly vote on things like this think it should be just 50 years.
And this even affects more serious issues. The US is attacking ISIS for enforcing horrific fundamentalist law, but the same thing is going to happen in Brunei and is already happening in Saudi Arabia, but those governments are friendly to outside oil companies so the government and media are conveniently ignoring them.
Even more crazy is the US government's ability to spy on phonecalls, internet usage and peoples' houses even in other countries that didn't even vote them in. Do any of you remember voting to approve that?
The problem is, with just two major parties, and with corporations having the ability to buy control over the media and the minds of a huge number of apathetic and swing voters, both parties do what the corporations want so they get elected, their policies become the same, and there's no point voting any more. We might as well go live in an empire.
Not to mention that everything from jails to postal services to healthcare is being sold off to private companies, so eventually there won't even BE a government, except for figureheads, un-elected corportations will run all our public services for profit.
So anyway my question for you is this, do you think if we keep going down this path of prioritising money above all else and allowing corporations to buy control of the media, our democratic system will eventually cease to be democratic? Or has it already ceased to be democratic?
