First Turning "purge"

[JasonBlack]

Quote:We liberals are completely dumbfounded for solutions because anything other than 'more of the same' is out of the question. After all under neoliberal practice, he who owns the gold makes the rules. Anyone at all frustrated is obliged to suffer with a smile. So enjoy the short bus ride to some amphitheater in which a giant television screen shows you Old Faithful.at Yellowstone National Park. You will still be fleeced.

I'll respond to the rest later, but for now....that's basically every government ever. fwiw, I agree that the current system of simply letting the winners buy up the entire government is super shortsighted (I have never had strongly supportive views on corporations, but admittedly, I don't think I was critical enough of them in my youth), but, to one extent or another, the people with the money are always going to make the rules. Whether we're talking capitalist tycoons in America, apparatchiki in the Soviet Union, coal heiresses in Australia or kings in medieval Gaul, this principle has held true for a long time.

The question is mostly whether or not we can design a system with enough checks, balances and accountability so that power isn't monopolized, and there is incentive to produce laws that are at least decent for the rest of society. Rich people not making the rules at all though? That's never going to happen.