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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
Why do you think "culturally/ethnically uniform" matters?
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It matters a great deal. One of the most amazing books I have ever read is Mancur Olson's The Rise and Decline of Nations. He has one trivial point that he simply hammers home over and over again (with miserably dry prose, too) over a short book: democracy does not work. The problem is that special interests always win due to skewed incentives as taxpayers find it cheaper to pay them off than fight them off. The government will NEVER be on your side. It will always be on the side of the people with money and power.
Example A: Clinton (Bill version) removed Glass-Steagall and put Robert Rubin of Goldman Sachs in charge of regulating the banks. Result: the 2008 financial crisis and 14 trillion in off the record bailouts from the Fed. Now Hillary gives speeches to Wall Street (whose contents she will not divulge) for $500,000 a pop, and the Clinton Foundation gives approximately 5% of its proceeds to actual charities and is a de facto slush fund.
Example B: The military-industrial complex needs someone to fight now that the Cold War is over. So first we overthrow Qaddafi (not a nice guy to be sure) starting a massive civil war in Libya. Then we take his sarin gas and use it on Syrians so we have an excuse to invade there and help our ally Saudi Arabia (who probably funded the 9/11 attacks, but in an amazing show of bipartisanship Congress is blocking access to that section of the 9/11 report) get their pipeline to Europe. The result has been millions of people killed, but hey they are brown so I guess it doesn't matter, right?
Example C: Obama is pushing through the TTIP which allows US corporations to sue European governments (including Germany/Sweden which you tout as paradises) for loss of profits due to food safety laws. I'm sure Obama will somehow end up on the speech tour with Clinton and his own slush fund charity.
There is no such thing as democratic socialism. There is only capitalism, representing economic and political freedom, and totalitarianism, which takes it away. And we have the latter now.