America Is One-Dollar-One-Vote, Not Really One-Person-One Vote.
The only comprehensive and scientific study which has ever been done of
whether the U.S. is a democracy or instead a dictatorship, was published in
2014. It studied the period during 1981 through 2002, and it found that, “In the United
States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule — at least not in the
causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.”
And
this is quoting now directly from the study itself: “The preferences of the
average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically
non-significant impact upon public policy.”
A study published two years later (in 2016) reviewed the
entire relevant scientific literature and found that “responsiveness [to the
American public’s preferences] seems to have declined during the late twentieth
century” and might be getting worse yet than that: “The picture appears to be
even more ominous — that is, opinion and policy are negatively related — on
highly salient issues that attract media attention.” (Consequently: the more
media-attention, the less that the Government’s policy will reflect the
public’s preferences on the given issue. This is indirect proof that the media
which the public are being exposed to are controlled by the aristocracy and
thus focus on and propagandize for, whatever the aristocracy most want to fool
the public about.) This scientific report stated, in its “Conclusions,” that,
“the trends seem to be moving in the wrong direction from the standpoint of
democratic theory — that is, people seem less and less likely to get what they
say they want from government.” This, if it is true, proves the aristocracy’s
success, against the public. It proves that the aristocracy are still in
control and therefore are increasingly getting their way, against the public —
that America is increasingly an aristocracy (sometimes called instead an
“oligarchy” but meaning the same thing: the billionaires rule) and not a
democracy.
The
basic problem in America, therefore, isn’t Democratic versus Republican; it is
instead democracy versus dictatorship. And this problem exists within each Party:
each Party is controlled by its billionaires, not by its
voting-public.
The
best videos that I’ve seen explaining how, in local politics, the aristocracy
controls America, are the following two:
1: http://archive.is/Aq3Mf which
is actually a series of three video reports on corruption in Georgia.
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtv0GuiDtvo where
Nomi Konst explains N.Y. politics via big-money control — the aristocracy’s
control via corruption — against and over the public.
Here
is a libertarian arguing for this corrupt control by the aristocracy to
continue and to increase:
The
libertarian presentation reflects refusal to see, or understand, systemic
issues — the very issues that the operation by the aristocracy are being hired
and paid to master. Consequently: libertarianism is the aristocracy’s ideology
to fool the public into submission. In effect: it’s the aristocratic religion,
the aristocratic faith, and so it is funded massively by the
aristocracy.
The
best video explaining the study which proved that corruption rules America, is:
To call a country like that a ‘democracy’
is to insult democracy. Any honest libertarian despises
democracy. (Dishonest ones try to deceive the public to think that
libertarianism supports democracy. But that’s merely adding deception to
deception, as if the dishonest ideology isn’t already bad enough.)
Incidentally: If billionaires (and
perhaps a few of the centi-millionaires) have almost entirely been controlling
the U.S. Government, then they should be almost entirely funding (by their
taxes and fees) the U.S. Government. If the rest of the public haven’t had any
significant control of the Government, then the rest of the public shouldn’t
pay any signficiant percentage of the Government’s costs. And any of the
federal debt that has been engendered and accumulated, should likewise be
charged proportionately — and not charged, to any sigificant extent, against
the public. This would certainly be the democratic solution to the federal
debt.
Also
at below the billionaire-class (585 Americans), there is vastly more political
influence by the few rich than by the far-more-numerous poor. For example, in
2016, only 0.52% of donations were $200+, but those produced
67.8% “of all individual contributions to federal candidates, PACs, parties and
outside groups.”
This
article is being submitted to all U.S. news-media, and may be freely published
by any of them — and will presumably be published by any of them that want the
U.S. public to have access to the information and documentation that are
provided in it. Of course, any that wish to hide this information and
documentation will not publish it, even though they may freely do so — they
would rather pay their hirees and selected contributors, instead. Freedom of
the press (at least in the United States) means freedom of the owners of the
press — it has nothing to do with democracy, which concerns freedom of the
public, against any type of dictatorship (including aristocracy or
“oligarchy”).
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Investigative
historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic
vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and
of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that
Created Christianity.