Plutocracy...

[Wry Catcher]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

 

[Sallow]

Well Plutocracy, for obvious reasons. Almost every one of them has given rise to abject poverty and violent revolution. And sometimes..like in the cases of China and the Soviet Union..the replacement is much worse.

 

[Ringel05]

Nahhhhhh........

 

[The T]

Nahhhhhh........

 

[boedicca]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

It's clear that you don't grok that Socialism is just a front for a particularly nasty form of Plutocracy.

 

[The T]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

And not to mention the wealthy plutocrats that have been voted into office? Controlled by Unions?

Naaaahhh...

 

[Sallow]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

It's clear that you don't grok that Socialism is just a front for a particularly nasty form of Plutocracy.

That's because for the most part..

It's not.

 

[Revere]

There is a revolving door between the financial industry and the Obama administration, more than any other before it.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Social engineering never works. Our government is almost completely inept, incompetent at this point. I'm just surprised that so many are willing to have an inept government take care of them. We're already broke anyway, lol. It's bizarro world. I usually just laugh anymore and continue on about my day.

 

[boedicca]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

It's clear that you don't grok that Socialism is just a front for a particularly nasty form of Plutocracy.

That's because for the most part..

It's not.

How naive.

Socialist Leaders lead lavish lifestyles on the backs of their state owned slaves.

 

[The T]

There is a revolving door between the financial industry and the Obama administration, more than any other before it.

And BOTH are equally guilty of thier wanton lust for control over the people.

 

[Sallow]

It's clear that you don't grok that Socialism is just a front for a particularly nasty form of Plutocracy.

That's because for the most part..

It's not.

How naive.

Socialist Leaders lead lavish lifestyles on the backs of their state owned slaves.

Yes and no, depends on what "Socialist" state you are talking about (And seriously, states are rarely, if ever..fully Socialist).

But Plutocrats are rarely elected.

 

[boedicca]

Here. Read up on your Workers' Paradises:

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER

 

[Revere]

There is a revolving door between the financial industry and the Obama administration, more than any other before it.

And BOTH are equally guilty of thier wanton lust for control over the people.

What can Countrywide Mortgage do to you now?

 

[Sallow]

Here. Read up on your Workers' Paradises:

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER

I dunno.

Do you read the thread before you post? Read post number 2.

 

[georgephillip]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

Currently I would have to vote for fascism based primarily on conditions to have arisen in this country since 9/11, "best summed up as a general crisis of Pax Americana.

"The fact that more is being said about fascism in America indicates that a thorough and ongoing debate is now in order.

"Yet discussions of this sort will inevitably take us into a virtual minefield, especially given the commonplace perception of fascism as a form of totalitarianism that occurred in the past and can never happen again.

"We propose that the current talk about fascism has arisen from conditions that can be best summed up as a general crisis of Pax Americana.

"By general crisis we mean a convergence of developments, long-term and short, pervading the social order that have rendered much of it dysfunctional and dystopian. Stated in another way, the concept of a general crisis describes Pax Americana in economic, political, social and cultural decline.

"Its long-term causes are rooted in the mid-1970s, where we see the beginnings—brought on in part by the oil shocks to the American economy attributed to the rise of OPEC, and the military defeat in Vietnam—of the dissolution of U.S. economic hegemony over the global capitalist system. These proved costly to U.S. credibility around the world and suggested that the idea of American invincibility was indeed a myth.

"Despite the so-called triumph over communism trumpeted as a victory by the Reagan administration, the heralding of a New World Order by George H. W. Bush, or the hollow economic boom brokered by Bill Clinton’s neoliberalism, the crisis of Pax Americana deepened throughout the 1980s and 1990s."

It Could Happen Here

 

[Wry Catcher]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

It's clear that you don't grok that Socialism is just a front for a particularly nasty form of Plutocracy.

No I don't. But I understand that Soviet Communism and Marxism in China resulted in a very conservative totalitarian form of government. And that the leadership in both nations were wealthy and enjoyed benefits denied to the hoi polloi. Kind of like the member of congress in our country today.

 

[uscitizen]

I often think Pluto is running our government.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

a greater threat than socialism?

The term "plutocracy" is formally defined as government by the wealthy, and is also sometimes used to refer to a wealthy class that controls a government, often from behind the scenes. More generally, a plutocracy is any form of government in which the wealthy exercise the preponderance of political power, whether directly or indirectly.

Which is the greater threat to our Republic, socialism or plutocracy? And, Why?

It's clear that you don't grok that Socialism is just a front for a particularly nasty form of Plutocracy.

No I don't. But I understand that Soviet Communism and Marxism in China resulted in a very conservative totalitarian form of government. And that the leadership in both nations were wealthy and enjoyed benefits denied to the hoi polloi. Kind of like the member of congress in our country today.

Chairman Mao and Stalin were responsible for the murders, hangings, beatings, slayings, rapes, stonings, drownings, tortures of tens of millions of their own citizens. Mao even let his own red army kill his first wife. There is no comparison of these two murderers and our congress.

 

[AquaAthena]

------wealthy class that controls a government,

Do you mean like George Soros???