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In reply to the discussion: Can We Just Agree that Everything is Fake? The American Aristocracy is Real. [View all]rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)70. Sounds good but first we must secure our election system. Without free and fair elections
all else will be worthless.
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Can We Just Agree that Everything is Fake? The American Aristocracy is Real. [View all]
blur256
Jun 2013
OP
Not "on the verge of." There's been a permanent aristocracy in America since the 1870s, if not
leveymg
Jun 2013
#4
Correct. Everything is fake, and it couldn't be done without organized religion. nt
valerief
Jun 2013
#5
K&R x 10000000000!!!!!!!! This is what I have been saying here and I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!!!
Dustlawyer
Jun 2013
#10
The 1st Amendment already has reasonable restrictions for several things, it is against the law
Dustlawyer
Jun 2013
#62
How in the world would you devise "reasonable restrictions" on First Amendment
JDPriestly
Jun 2013
#65
Sounds good but first we must secure our election system. Without free and fair elections
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#70
I understand and I've always felt the same as you...up until the last few years.
BlueJazz
Jun 2013
#20
I agree. The Ruling Elite would like nothing better than violence which will justify
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#71
Exactly. In India the police, under British rule, who were Indians, got to a point where
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#75
The difference between a healthy equity and an unfair system is a few percentage points
bhikkhu
Jun 2013
#47
If I had to invent a movement, it would be something like "conscientious consumerism"
bhikkhu
Jun 2013
#72
I don't think people are giving up. You're just taking our dissatisfaction
Skeeter Barnes
Jun 2013
#85
wish to? american has had an aristocracy since forever. it's just gotten more blatant in
HiPointDem
Jun 2013
#60
Every DUer, every American should read "The Plutonomy Symposium: Rising Tides Lifting Yachts".
Fire Walk With Me
Jun 2013
#78