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Old 11-26-2016, 08:23 PM   #1981 (permalink)
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What makes you think I trust unelected (or elected) people in regards to their influence on politics? I'm completely against that. What makes you think I support it?
You just said there is no downside to capitalism, did you not? Corporations are made up of unelected individuals with enough money to buy influence in politics at a level that the general populace can not hope to match. Given the massiveness of many corporations and their international status and interests then... do I really need to finish that sentence?
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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