Is inequality and money hijacking the American Democracy? - page 3.

Spendulus

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Quote from: Trading on December 23, 2015, 03:22:04 PM

The thesis that the growing inequality since the eighties is allowing a few people to determine in great measure the candidates from (especially) the Republican party...

You mean like they picked Hillary?

Wait, that's not Republican...

Wait, the Republican rank and file have revolted against the "picks of the few..."

So what the fuck you talking about, dude?

Balthazar

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Hm, american democracy, what is this? Is this somehow related to NSA mass surveillance or Guantanamo concentration camp?

ridery99

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Soon only homosexuals and corporate CEOs have right to have opinions or vote.

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Nothing like healthy scepticism and hard evidence

The thesis that the growing inequality since the eighties is allowing a few people to determine in great measure the candidates from (especially) the Republican party, and also their political agenda (rejecting that climate change has a human cause, rejecting any increase in taxes for the richest, defending the annulment of measures to regulate financial markets adopted after 2008, etc.), thanks to their financial capacity that allows them to pay huge contributions to the candidates that adopt their agenda is old.

Krugman has been one of their advocates:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/opinion/paul-krugman-plutocrats-against-democracy.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/16/opinion/krugman-why-inequality-matters.html
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/musings-on-inequality-and-growth/ (rejecting that increasing inequality has increase grow of the economy)

Also Chomsky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTMqEn8HSow ("Requiem for the American Dream").

And Robert Reich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GojnBUIz0o ("Inequality for all")

But others have adopted the same perspective:
http://billmoyers.com/story/the-plutocrats-are-winning-dont-let-them/
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rl_vCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://blog.seattlepi.com/robertbrown/2014/12/14/the-superrich-have-hijacked-our-democracy/

Even the New York Times it self published reports with the same vision:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/11/us/politics/2016-presidential-election-super-pac-donors.html?_r=0

But the thesis has its critics too:

http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/how-to-think-about-inequality
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/08/krugman_on_inequality_and_demo

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