Vic
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Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: TehMac
You know...the democrats are just as elitest if not more so than Republican candidates. Probably more so, because they're busy condescending to people and making people dependent on the government to garner votes.
Money buys votes, which begets power. Both parties are guilty of it.
Exactly. Like its ideological opposite, libertarianism, populism exists on both the right and left side of the political spectrum.
Democracy and capitalism balance each other. Neither would work without the either. Without capitalism, the voting minority would have no rights within a democracy. Likewise, the majority in a capitalism without democracy.