10-12-2019, 09:55 PM
(10-12-2019, 08:13 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Plutocracy is illiberal and reactionary. It is democracy only for the asset owners -- which was so of feudal orders. The masses got no say in government.I don't see your right to vote being taken away any time soon. Yes, it's very difficult to convince people who own their own stuff and pay for their own stuff to also pay for you and pay for your stuff too.
If you are talking about Congressional Representatives and US Senators taking taxpayer-paid visits to examine military, economic, and diplomatic realities... that seems necessary for the smooth functioning of the government. Jet travel in real terms is much less costly than sea travel in the old days. The tickets for a transcontinental flight are about the same in real costs as a as steamer travel, except that one does not have to spend as much money on food on the flight of much lesser time.
The people most likely to be subjected to the guillotine or whatever its modern equivalent will be upper leaders deemed as criminals against humanity for ordering troops to fire upon peaceful protesters, followed by blatant exploiters who waxed fat off human suffering to support their sybaritic lifestyles or acted callously before the Revolution.
But before you speak of the French Revolution, know well that it occurred during a food shortage that followed a volcanic eruption in Iceland that exuded sulfur oxides that have an anti-greenhouse effect and fluorine compounds that harmed crop growth.
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I was talking about a blue plutocrat who happens to be a US congresswoman who has the luxury of being able to fly to places and stay at places for free while there on official business and do other things as mentioned above relating to other plutocrats as long as it can be viewed or explained or generally accepted as associated with official business too.
Yes, jet travel is much cheaper and much faster than boat travel. It's to bad we're going to have to get rid of them and resort to boat travel powered by wind again. The people who get guillotined will be whoever the propagandists are paid to get rid of for them. As far as I know, the court of public opinion does whatever the crowd says and crowd believes whatever the propagandists want it to believe. This is the liberal way based on everything that I've seen so far.