See that's where you're getting confused. Haven't you worked out by now that "citizens" are just fodder for the political elite? Who themselves are extensions of corporations? I mean, it's almost a cliché by now it's such common knowledge :/ Why do you think corporations stump up so much cash for the election campaigns? It's an investment. Why do politicians retire to comfy board positions on those same corporations? It's a reward.lRookiel said:
So much about political systems is a farce, just the wealthy securing their position in an endless cycle. It's no better in the UK, where headlines today claim that the income disparity between the richest and poorest is growing faster than in any other Western country. People protest, they get shut down by heavy-handed police, by sneering media, by ignorant or short-sighted citizens content to think that they actually have opportunities and prospects that they have any real control over.
The job losses from the current recession are in no way the fault of the people losing their jobs, but whilst they are losing their livelihoods, the horrendously wealthy people who orchestrated and oversaw the current economy woes get bonuses and pay-rises of grotesque quantities. The idea that a man can make himself is a fallacy. Those few who do make it are lucky and smart, but the vast majority of us have no real power or influence over the policies of the people who claim to represent us. Just take the UK's current government, a coalition between two ideologically opposed parties that has rode rough-shod over their manifestos. They literally have no democratic mandate to pass the legislation they have been enacting, and the damage that they are doing to the country's institutions is irreversible and traumatic. Even the protesting of millions of public sector workers the largest union action in my lifespan was considered a "damp squib" by PM Cameron - just what the fuck to people have to do to have influence? Donate a few hundred thousand to the party's political campaign? That's not democracy, that's more like Medieval Theology.
