Re:The Superrich Endanger Democracy
by dragonwriter on Friday June 07, 2019 @08:27AM
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> To me the flaws in that premise seem pretty straightfoward - there is no truth that democracy seeks to uncover.
Sure there is. In fact, you are about to illustrate it unwittingly:
> Democracy is a highly effective release valve so that if the situation becomes intolerable then the ruling class is changed out.
The truth democracy seeks to uncover is “is the leadership intolerable”; the corruption of democracy into plutocracy frustrates discovering g that answer as he weighting of political power by wealth biases toward showing the actual ruling class as tolerable irrespective of whether that is the mass feeling, and makes democracy a led effective safety valve.
Sure there is. In fact, you are about to illustrate it unwittingly:
> Democracy is a highly effective release valve so that if the situation becomes intolerable then the ruling class is changed out.
The truth democracy seeks to uncover is “is the leadership intolerable”; the corruption of democracy into plutocracy frustrates discovering g that answer as he weighting of political power by wealth biases toward showing the actual ruling class as tolerable irrespective of whether that is the mass feeling, and makes democracy a led effective safety valve.