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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I do not in fact think that. I think that America is a country built on wealthy landowners ruling everyone else. I think this because voting was initially restricted to landowners which is a pretty obvious signal that our modern idea of "American freedom" is in fact not what the country was actually founded upon and the current domination of wealthy elites and corporations suggests that nothing ever changed other than our naive expectations.
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I mean, sure, that's one way to look at it. But we broke off from Great Britain in an effort to reform ourselves, didn't we? We didn't want to be tied to their whim. And this voting restriction, as you pointed out, was "initial", we've since reformed and corrected for those restrictions.
I will grant that wealthy elites and corporations have much more power, especially in regards to lobbying, than they should. They're not looking out for anyone's interests but their own (and their shareholders).