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What is America? A Republic? A Democracy? An Oligarchy? A Plutocracy? A Theocracy?

What is America? A Republic? A Democracy? An Oligarchy? A Plutocracy? A Theocracy?
America appears to be headed in the direction of Plutocracy. This form of government believes a society should be ruled by its wealthiest members. The Supreme Court has allowed a flood of money to buy our elections, rather than the will of the people.
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Hightower: Turning our democracy into their plutocracy
Therefore a very few wealthy powers can pour money into these murky political operations and gain unwarranted plutocratic power over the election process. And looking at the fundraising numbers, those wealthy powers have definitely taken charge of the ...
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New Graphic Book About Democracy In Greece

New Graphic Book About Democracy In Greece
Democracy book A team of talented artists and writers deliver a new graphic novel that presents extraordinary characters and bold colors in an effort to offer a sprightly explanation of the abstract concept of “Democracy” tracing its birthplace to its ...
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How Y Combinator non-profit alum DemocracyOS hopes to upgrade democracy
Academic and activist Larry Lessig might not be the next president of the United States, but his entry in the race helps bring across the point that democracy should and can be fixed. In that sense, his message is not much different from the mission of ...
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The Democracy Project at SOU: An Opportunity for Learning and Leadership
Editor's note: This is the first of six weekly installments of "Dispatches from India" about Southern Oregon University Honors College students' trip to India this month to learn more about democracy in action. When Southern Oregon University launched ...
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GOP Debate: A Mirage of Democracy

GOP Debate: A Mirage of Democracy
As for where we're headed, the plutocracy wants that. That's their purpose. They would love to keep this nation at war. There are more contractors in Iraq now than there were when we were fighting there. Billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayer money is ...
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The plot to marginalize Bernie Sanders: The shared agenda that links Fox News ...
America, today, is much closer to a plutocracy than a democracy. Corporations write our laws, buy our elections, and dictate political discourse. That's nakedly anti-democratic, and Sanders is one of the few candidates proposing to do something about it.
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Alternative democracy

Alternative democracy
That is precisely what Alternative Democracy offers the populous. The internet, smartphone apps and modern technology as a whole has given us the ability to participate and comment on current political issues. Alternative democracy takes this notion a ...
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Kenya's rampant corruption is eating away at the very fabric of democracy
It is highly unusual for even nominally democratic governments in developing countries to start fighting corruption midway through their term. This is in part because if you haven't put the infrastructure in place to deal with graft in your first 24 ...
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