plutochracy

medicineman · #1 12-30-2008, 06:20 AM

AMERICA IS NOT REALLY A DEMOCRACY BUT A PLUTOCRACY
Plutocracy is governance by the wealthy. Although it goes through the democratic-like motions of elections and voting, America is not the democracy that it proclaims itself to be but a plutocracy dominated everywhere by a powerful elite that serves itself first and best in every way.
Capitalism, the market economy, is our best form of economic relationship. It motivates personal and local decision making, creativity, entrepreneurship, labor, and productivity; and it creates much wealth. But it does a poor job of justly distributing that wealth. Those who hold advantage take ever more advantage without limit. We turn to government to mitigate this shortcoming. Well and good … were government an honest broker. But, of course, our current government is not. Powerful, wealthy corporations and individuals reign supreme over and populate our government, corrupting it and using it to excessively serve their own ends, much to the detriment of the rest of the populace and the common good.
THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWER IS THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL OF ALL POLITICAL ISSUES
The distribution of power is the most fundamental of all political issues. Good government and a good society require the correct distribution of power as their foundation. Excessive power cannot be held by an elite few, the simple majority, or any other faction of the populace.
In Beyond political power is shifted away from the elite few and toward the entire electorate by adding to our government a new limited direct democracy branch in which the electorate votes directly on issues. The powers of this new direct democracy branch are carefully balanced with the powers of the current representative branches.
THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE WRONG KIND OF DEMOCRACY
Democracy also has its shortcomings. Most proponents of direct democracy, including myself at first, fail to understand that unlimited majority-rule direct democracy, were it ever really tried, would only result in “the tyranny of democracy,” the political, economic, religious, and behavioral tyranny of the simple majority over the rest of the populace.
Thus, while moving away from the tyranny of plutocracy, it is important to avoid the tyranny that an incorrectly designed democracy can become. Our goal cannot be democracy just for the sake of democracy but to discover a kind of democracy that achieves and secures the fullest responsible freedom of the individual in a just, pluralistic, open, well-functioning society. It is by adding just the right kind and amount of direct democracy to our government (or to any government) that its representative branches are rendered truly representative of the entire electorate, plutocracy is overcome, and the fullest measures of true democracy and individual freedom are achieved. In Beyond I present what I believe to be the right kind of democracy.

From: "Beyond plutochracy, true democracy for America"

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