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(20,018 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)that's from an actual lefty: nowadays "left" just means "fanatically smitten with a neocon neolib"...
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)if Congress had the will to stop them. But why would the 1% turn on themselves?
Triana
(22,666 posts)....elections should be publicly funded. Citizens United and our corporate court assures it'll never happen.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)lot (sortition) then only 1% of Congress would be composed of the 1%, statistically speaking.
dothemath
(345 posts)31500. Congress is made of 535 people and lobbyists. Sounds about right.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)people will accept.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)then Congress would represent the US populace. The ancient Athenians used a sortition system because they believed elections led to oligarchies of the economic elite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
The 1% would win 1% of the positions, while the 99% would win 99% of the positions, most of the time.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)affairs of the whole bourgeoisie"
The bourgeoisie control the economy, therefore they control the state.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)AnnieK401
(541 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)YeahSureRight
(205 posts)a sports event things will continue to get worse.
The GOP knew the one day they would lose the white vote so they played the long game and went after public education in the 70's....keep the masses stupid, ignorant and uninformed...feed them non stop propaganda 24/7, give em weekly hate and you have a nation of sheep.
No one pays attention any more nor do they remember the past.
Kurovski
(34,655 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)It's like looking in a mirror.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)he's too busy touching himself to the deep cadence of Rush Limbaugh's manly voice.
SalviaBlue
(2,918 posts)rec.