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Monday, January 24, 2005

Fake Democracy

In a fake democracy, citizens play a role defined by the power elite, but are not truly empowered or engaged. In Cuba and other fake democracies, citizens are hostages to raw state power that controls personal freedom. In the U.S., citizens are hostages to consumerism. Controlled distraction replaces brute force. Instead of overt government propaganda, U.S. Citizens are victims of sly corporate media.

...To say the U.S. has a representative form of democracy is to hide the greater truth that we have little more than a formal democracy, not one in which citizens can trust their representatives to serve the public interest. Our representatives serve the power elite. To recognize that there no longer is any public disgust and outrage that ordinary Americans have virtually no access to their “public servants” compared to corporate and other special interests, is to recognize how much we have become a fake democracy.

Nice concise exposition. We have fake democracy run by fake Christians.

Jack Clark 12:15 AM [+]   
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