Trump admin to withdraw from UN human rights council

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(06-21-2018, 10:33 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I know you weren't.  Just a thought, what government isn't effectively a plutocracy?  Our original government required you to be a land owner to exercise political power.  The Electoral College was created to prevent the plebs from electing someone unsuitable to be POTUS.  Government officials respond to people with power.  Money is a huge determinant of that power.  Outside of a dictatorship like Putin's or Kim's the rich have an extremely inordinate amount of power in pretty much every nation.

Russia is an oligarchical system, as well. The DPRK has the "supreme leader" thing going for it, but it also has an aristocratic system when you dive into it. Every country has a system where the wealthy have increased influence in the policy arena, but that doesn't mean that's the way it has to be or that there is no way to fix it.

I won't go into the nitty gritty details, but our system is more a plutocracy now than it ever has been in our history. There has always been some element of it, sure, but the founders actually sought to prevent that in their system. The widening socioeconomic inequality in our country is just making it worse. There is likely no feasible way to perfect it and become a model republic/democracy, but we've been making it worse for the past 30-40 years with policies that have been put in place.