Donald Trump and Dictatorial Taste

[Kinser79]

(03-20-2017, 07:04 AM)Odin Wrote:

(03-19-2017, 03:38 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: Big business itself is relatively easy to evade.

Not if it is powerful enough to make itself the state.

There are two kinds of states, on one hand you have states where the government is an agent of the popular will and on the other hand you have states that are basically the collective property of private interests. The former tend to be democracies, the later autocracies or narrow oligarchies. Libertarianism is the ideological propaganda of Oligarchy.

ROFLAMO

Odin have you learned nothing about history?  Or is your head so full of bullshit you can't.

States that attempt to base themselves on popular will are inherently unstable.  Democracies either degenerate into tyrannies of the majority or into chaos.  Which of course is why the US is not a democracy and never has been.  It is of course a Republic.

As for Oligarchy, it is more or less the natural state for mankind.  There is a class that rules and a class that is ruled.  But in no case has there ever been such a class, ruled or ruling that was frozen in stasis without the intervention of the state