B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 21, 2024

12:17 right now.

Are those black arrow shaped things on this guy’s head eyebrows?!

right on

Well put.

Oppression by the majority.

To which the level of tyranny is tied …

The power of corporations.

I just visited Nurnberg the other day and they highlighted the Rise of the Third Reich. It involved misinformation, the demonization of non-Aryans, a cult worship of a leader, a strong appeal to nationalism over individual rights, emphasis on large rallies, imprisonment of pollical rivals, the use of violence to obtain political objectives.

Substitute “illegals” for non-Aryans and it’s today’s headlines.

How bout the difference between Democracy and a Republic?

I believe that in a democracy that 51% or more of the people rule.

In an oligarchy there are less than 10% of the people that are the rulers.

This is too close to the truth in the USA.

I agree. Wait a while and an oligarch would want to be sole ruler. A dictatorship is coming

It all depends where one is in the oligarchy like communism, Liberalism and Mr Jill’s sock drawer.

Better than an autocracy.

Oligarchy- what do you think the signing of the Declaration of Independence was. 56 men controlled the situation of overthrowing the British government.

6:51 here

Present administration.

What will happen if the Orange one gets elected.

In a pure democracy he’s correct. But not in a constitutional republic.

It’s not inevitable if Trump is soundly defeated again.

Every small town, church, fire department…………..

All paranoid nonsense

That’s the trouble with these two forms of government: noone knows what they are. Democracy focuses on rule by all of the people while oligarchy focuses on rule by the wealthy few. Currently, Biden publicly pushes democracy while Trump privately pushes oligarchy.

Dang, at least he asked.

And, Eva Peron.

Time and apathy.

The Bering Strait.

Hate Bait.

This is why [insert your most hated political system here] is so evil.

Truth be told, oligarchies are made up of power brokers who know how to exploit any political system for their own purposes. The question is: which system is most difficult for them to exploit? Which system provides the greatest accountability against the oligarchy? Whichever system that is, I guarantee the power brokers will working against any implementation of that system. That system is [insert your favorite system here because you imagine that the power brokers are the rich people you most hate who you imagine are working against your favorite system].

“elected officials that we vote for”

“You have a democracy—if you can keep it.” (Ben Franklin, wording close if not exact.)

True, that.

Wow. Deep.

….take one look at The Great White North to see that this is true….sigh.