Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)
by rayiner on Monday February 09, 2015 @09:12AM
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You're trying to tie-together two narratives that make no sense in conjunction. Do we have the drug war because of tyranny of the majority, or Citizens United money overriding the will of the majority? I'd posit the evidence shows that the majority strongly supported making drugs illegal and meting out harsh sentences, at least at the time the laws were put into place. If that's the case, the whole "oligarchy" narrative is superfluous.
Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)
by themartorana on Monday February 09, 2015 @07:05PM
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The majority is often in support all sorts of policies that are against their best interests.
That has nothing to do with what agenda is moved forward by the oligarchy.
If a democracy and majority rule were the true rule of the land, we may still have segregation, slavery, illegal mixed-race marriages, and so on, and so on...
Now look at what class our electorate is largely made up of. Mix that with a little Citizens United and it becomes clear again that money controls government (and now rather blatantly) and it's not often that decisions are made that benefit the weakest among us - drug policy and the war on drugs being just one example.