Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I'd call the United States today a liberal plutocracy*, which is
slipping into an illiberal plutocracy, due to its war on crime and
imperialism.
* It's a plutocracy, not a democracy, for a majority do not rule here
and, in a majority of elections (which are like markets with
extraordinarily high costs of entry), candidates who spend more money
than opponents win.
interestingly, back in the early 1970s or late 1960s I read an article
in the U.S, Naval Institute PROCEEDINGS (because my late father was in
the Navy Reserve) that argued that the US is a plutocracy.
--
Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to
them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it
means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
