[Beasty]

The United States is considered to be an Oligarchy (a socio-political theory where nearly all power is concentrated into an extremely small amount of people)- more specifically, a plutocracy (one where that small group of people is comprised of the richest of the rich; the people who own the multinational corporations and media outlets.)

Glad to know it's in writing, even if it is something US citizens have known for a long time.


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Official Study (Princeton University)

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[Alloy]

This is old shit, there is no such thing as democracy in this country anymore duo to capitalism, fucking Bush administration made capitalism even more powerful....so the rich only gets richer while the poor gets poorer.

[UzzyFTW]

I am glad I live in germany, in a actual democracy ;)

[SmG DiosD]

damn thats why Im going back to my country soon

[SmG Phoenix]

Australia is going to shit. :(
It was OP.

[Mclaren]

Here in Colombia in some days, will be the presidentials elections, and the actual president is a man corrupt, and other candidate, too is. The country is going to the shit.

[Beasty]

Every country is going to shit these days.

You've got to ask yourselves what nearly all countries like that have in common? Clearly it's not the same religion (or lack of), it's not a matter of race or gender. Is it about republicanism? Nah, some countries are constitutional monarchies, some are republics, some are dictatorships. Is it energy costs? Nope, a lot of countries have varying amounts of energy dependency as well as natural resources (both fossil fuels and renewable) being pretty abundant in the grand scheme of things.

If only there was one thing nearly every country in this world had in common....

...it most certainly would be some kind of "-ism"...probably has to do with money, since that is primarily what these people are corrupt for... it has to have abundant byproducts; like 84.97 trillion of it....

...I feel like it's on the tip of my tounge...

[Dark]

Okay same problem here with India. India is corrupt as it is in the top 15 corrupt countries list released by alot of Magazines and TV channels. These money has been invested on other countries and also in Swiss Bank. The estimated amount is about 7 times the current Yearly Budget of India. Nepotism and Plutocracy has been a major problem for Indians. When you take India 2 families in each state fight for elections from 1950s.
No country is perfect.
But from this year India has elected a new Prime Minister. Hope he will solve some problems.

[Ray88]

back to hong kong

[Alloy]

Beasty if you watch documentaries about the 2008 recession, you'll know that -ism you're looking for. George Bush only cared about money, literally he was a puppet for the corporations but not many people see that. His priority was not to serve for the people, but for the corporations, he tried to strengthen capitalism and derivatives as best he could, which he did and then he caused a global economic recession, making a bunch (which was their plan) of the wealthiest corporations go bankrupt but those that went bankrupt don't give a shit because they already made their maximum profits. So they file bankruptcy and lay on their money while over other Americans go unemployed....this all happened because of Ronald Reagan and the Bush administration.

The corporation owners only care about themselves not the people, they will get away with murder in order to achieve their money goal and they can get away with it because the government is backing them up.

America needs to protest before it's too late, they are scared of the people that is why they are trying to take advantage of us, if the whole USA protest, then we can topple this -ism and bring back democracy.