Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:26 am
Well I do vote for people so I'd like to disagree.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Ketora wrote:So... America is an oligarchy now
...heh... what do you guys think about our new system of government...
Oligarchy is a form of government which means (at least by modern day definition)
The economic elite have far much more political power than the majority, who has little to no power.
When we vote it only chooses which oligarch will take a certain place, the majority of the time the oligarchs only care what the economic elite think and not of the majority.
I'am justing asking if we Americans are going to be okay.
Second Blazing wrote:Katganistan wrote:
You actually have to, you know, provide proof of your statement.
It's a DEBATE forum. You have to provide the framework of the debate.
Things worked pretty well before people were forced to tpye the equivalent of an 8th grade current events assignment to start a thread.
The Intergalactic Russian Empire wrote:Ketora wrote:
O well... I guess america is not a democracy then
The US isn't actually a democracy, technically it's a federal presidential constitutional republic. If it were a democracy everyone would vote on the laws directly instead of voting for representatives who make the laws for them.
Finland SSR wrote:"Many dictatorships are oligarchies.
Many democracies are oligarchies.
Therefore, many dictatorships are democracies."
-said no one ever. I made these words up.
The United States of North Amerigo wrote:Well I do vote for people so I'd like to disagree.
Ketora wrote:The United States of North Amerigo wrote:Well I do vote for people so I'd like to disagree.
Well,
The parties choose the candidates,
and the candidates are almost always economic elite...
There are allot of countries who have elections that are not so fair...
The economy has much more influence than your vote.
But with candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton... It look s like election won't even matter soon... but if I had to choose a candidate... Ben Cline seems pretty nice.
But most of the Oligarchy is among the legislature and big companies
GreatestBanks wrote:The Intergalactic Russian Empire wrote:The US isn't actually a democracy, technically it's a federal presidential constitutional republic. If it were a democracy everyone would vote on the laws directly instead of voting for representatives who make the laws for them.
True, and that's good, because voters today are uneducated and uninformed.
Ketora wrote:The United States of North Amerigo wrote:Well I do vote for people so I'd like to disagree.
Well,
The parties choose the candidates,
and the candidates are almost always economic elite...
There are allot of countries who have elections that are not so fair...
The economy has much more influence than your vote.
But with candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton... It look s like election won't even matter soon... but if I had to choose a candidate... Ben Cline seems pretty nice.
But most of the Oligarchy is among the legislature and big companies
Havenburgh wrote:Ketora wrote:
Well,
The parties choose the candidates,
and the candidates are almost always economic elite...
There are allot of countries who have elections that are not so fair...
The economy has much more influence than your vote.
But with candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton... It look s like election won't even matter soon... but if I had to choose a candidate... Ben Cline seems pretty nice.
But most of the Oligarchy is among the legislature and big companies
Its everywhere. The big company and the banks control the houses. Hillary, Romney, Trump, they are all controlled by them. How? Because the companies give them millions for their campaigns and in return the candidates champion what the companies want.
GreatestBanks wrote:Havenburgh wrote:A republic is a representative democracy. What your thinking of is a direct democracy.
Direct democracy today could never work.
And that's true, but it seems that the words ''Democracy'' and ''republic'' or ''Dictatorship'' and ''oligarchy'' have seemingly lost their meanings.