American Democracy Now An Oligarchy | Joel S. Hirschhorn

Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust

April 24, 2014

History has been made. But few Americans are aware of it or angry about it.

I say: Wake up Americans. A war has been waged against U.S. democracy, from the inside. Time to pick a side and fight back.

If you are not totally brain dead, distracted by pain or pleasure, or consumed by narcissistic obsessions, face the ugly, painful truth.

Republicans with political power in Congress and the states and, even more appallingly, on the Supreme Court, have succeeded in turning their beloved republic into a-money-buys-power oligarchy. One person, one vote was the enemy and it is being defeated. One dollar, one vote is the new Republican political value. American democracy is more delusional than ever. To think otherwise is even more delusional.

I present three arguments supporting the conclusion that there has been a conversion of U.S. democracy into something worse than a plutocracy. Political power is more dependent on money than ever before.

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