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Re:Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money by isolate on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @04:33AM (#10805928)
> Representative democracy isn't elective oligarchy.

It's kind of funny, because when I looked up the word oligarchy, I noticed that Wikipedia had an entry for the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligarchy#United_States

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Re:Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money by zipwitch on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @07:26AM (#10806385)
Both the ruling class and the public of the 21st Century United States have a great deal of emotional investment in pretending that we are some sort of hyper-equitable nation, governed wisely by the public in the interests of freedom and the general good, instead of our government being a plutocratic shit-show.
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Re:Switzerland to vote on banning banks from creating money by isolate on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:33PM (#10809522)
To be fair, the indoctrination starts at a very young age.
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