"Ed Pawlowski" <e...@snet.xxx> wrote in message
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> On 10/13/2020 12:41 AM, %% wrote:
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>> "rbowman" <
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>>> On 10/12/2020 09:51 PM, %% wrote:
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>>>> "rbowman" <
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>>>>> On 10/12/2020 08:22 PM, T wrote:
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>>>>>> Comrade! I do not care who is doing it. The mechanism
>>>>>> needs to be shut down and the honesty of our electoral
>>>>>> system needs to be restored.
>>>>>
>>>>> Our electoral system is beyond repair I'm afraid. I read an article by
>>>>> a Russian today. While living in Russia she had been concerned with
>>>>> the validity of the elections and volunteered as a poll watcher. She
>>>>> went in expecting to uncover all sorts of manipulations but came away
>>>>> convinced that Putin got 64% of the vote completely honestly. The
>>>>> problem was the choice was Putin the head of the dying Communist party
>>>>> and two other also rans.
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>>>>> Democracy doesn't work well when the choice is between Bad and
>>>>> Worse,both of which were selected by the oligarchs.
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>>>> Putin wasn’t selected by the oligarchs, he selected
>>>> himself and killed or jailed or exiled his opposition.
>>
>>> I was not necessarily talking about Russia.
>>
>> Nowhere else do oligarchs decide who the voters get to vote for anymore.
>
> Depends on who you ask. The US is on the list too.
Only for the fools that wouldn’t have a fucking clue what
a real oligarch was if one bit them on their lard arse.
Yes, you can certainly claim that the 'founding fathers'
were oligarchs and did have quite a bit of say on
who the voters got to vote for, that hasn’t been
how US politics has been done for centuries now.
Yes, there has been much more recent successful
manipulation of who the voters get to vote for but
its silly to claim that individuals like Boss Tweed etc
were oligarchs and that certainly isnt who determined
who say dems got to vote for in this current election.
And while JKF's dad was certainly an oligarch,
that’s not how the voters got to vote for him.
Yes, the more rabid dems and even Sanders got binned
very effectively and so the dem voters only got to vote
for Biden if they wanted to vote dem, but that wasn’t
done by oligarchs, it was done by the political machine.
And it wasn’t even the political machine that delivered
Trump to vote for last time, it was in fact the vast number
of voters in the primaries who decided that it was worth
trying a non politician because they were so pissed off
about what professional politicians had delivered for them.
Its silly to claim that the likes of Bannon are oligarchs and
there isnt any evidence that the Koch brothers etc had any real
effect on who the voters got to vote for in the actual election.
That’s bullshit. The Tea Party fools weren't done by oligarchs.
Neither was Trump, or Hitlary.
> igarchy becomes tyrannical and/or oppressive when there is a limitation
> the separation of powers and when the rule of law is violated.
And that just doesn’t happen in the modern first world anymore.
It isn't even that common in the second world like Brazil and Argentina etc.