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Democracy Dies... in the Pockets of the American Oligarchy (www.commondreams.org)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Absolutely correct, democracy is just a cardboard cutout if it lets kings and queens live inside it who are as powerful individually as the entire public. That's an oligarchy.