Has America become an oligarchy?

[SubV]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Is America is Oligarchy?

The real question is how long has it been one?

Certainly it is. Democracy is just the facade.

How long? I think, almost from the beginning.

[the_tyrant]

let me change Steve's quote a bit:
"'Society' has no rights. 'The Majority' has no rights. 'The Minority' has no rights. 'Humans' have no rights. No group has rights. Only money has rights."

I remember clearly the first chapter in my Chinese political science text book:

Capitalist society is built on oppression. It can either be people in the country who are oppressed (traditional capitalism), people overseas who are oppressed (outsourcing), or simple a nation and its riches are pillaged and raped (imperialism and colonialism)


Frankly, in my opinion, communism is the same thing, just that they spew propaganda at you insisting that "the oppressors are no more!"

I have an online buddy, from Albania. He is a supporter of capitalism and class division. This is what he tells me:
"Under communism, we were pretty much classless, in which we were all poor. With capitalism, at least I am rich, most others are still poor though."

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

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I have an online buddy, from Albania. He is a supporter of capitalism and class division. This is what he tells me:
"Under communism, we were pretty much classless, in which we were all poor. With capitalism, at least I am rich, most others are still poor though."

Yeah, capitalism works pretty good when you are the rich one.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Frankly, in my opinion, communism is the same thing, just that they spew propaganda at you insisting that "the oppressors are no more!"

I have an online buddy, from Albania. He is a supporter of capitalism and class division. This is what he tells me:
"Under communism, we were pretty much classless, in which we were all poor. With capitalism, at least I am rich, most others are still poor though."

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[August]

Say what you want about my country but I still would rather live here than anywhere else.

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by August

Say what you want about my country but I still would rather live here than anywhere else.

Thats cool, but can I ask, have you been anywhere else much?
I know home is home, im just asking.

Vietnam was as well ultimatly, we tried to help the French, and they ran away and left us with a bucket of feces that killed 60,000 men, and had many more brave survivors spit on by people like Jane Fonda.

Nope you got involved in Vietnam in a bid to contain the spread of Communism in south east asia, why would the US help the French re-establish their pre-WW2 empire, when at the time the U.S was strongly against British and European colonialism?
Ho Chi Mihn was a communist who was about to establish a Soviet backed Regime in Vietnam (after the French Defeat),
Vietnams neighbours - Laos, Cambodia and Thailand had weak goverments that could easily follow suit (The Domino Theory) America saw Communism as a threat, so a new Soviet block in south east asia was the last thing it wanted.
Simples

[August]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Thats cool, but can I ask, have you been anywhere else much?
I know home is home, im just asking.

Lived in Germany for three years does that count?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Lived in Germany for three years does that count?

If you spent that time in an isolation cell of the MP, then not.