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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Tue Feb 18, 2014, 10:26 AM Feb 2014

Secular Talk: Billionaire Admits He Doesn't Believe In Democracy

Billionaire tech mogul Tom Perkins, who recently came under fire for his letter in the Wall Street Journal warning that the less wealthy might stage a Nazi Germany-style pogrom against the wealthy 1%, told a forum in San Francisco that the world could be saved by changing American voting laws: "If you pay $1 million in taxes, you get a million votes."

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Secular Talk: Billionaire Admits He Doesn't Believe In Democracy (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Feb 2014 OP

If you have a Million Votes 4Q2u2 Feb 2014 #1

America is not a Democracy. dotymed Feb 2014 #2

"America is not a democracy" Jack Rabbit Feb 2014 #4

Our survival depends on that remedy. n/t dotymed Feb 2014 #5

Aren't the rich swilton Feb 2014 #3

4Q2u2

(1,406 posts)

1. If you have a Million Votes

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 10:29 AM

Feb 2014

Then you have to serve in the Military for a Million Votes worth. Then he and his kids can get killed and blown up.

dotymed

(5,610 posts)

2. America is not a Democracy.

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 10:47 AM

Feb 2014

The million dollars=a million votes was codified with citizens united.

Why do you think America has had more people denounce their American citizenship and leave the country? In the last few years this has happened more than the last 250 years combined.
If we poor people could afford to leave and renounce our citizenship, IMO, America would have a very low population.

This happened during the fascist takeover in Germany also.
Sadly, only the people with a disposable income can afford to do this.
The young may be able to also. If I were young and able to work, I would be gone.
Americans as a majority, are unable to change our political system.
Many are too uneducated to realize that they are slaves to a very unfair system.