Has democracy ended in the U.S.?

[Bengalzona]

(07-02-2018, 11:48 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: It is the movement away from the idea of the common good in our political arena. Robert Reich has a book about it which is interesting. He lays blame at the feet of the right more than I would, because this has become a tit-for-tat thing, but his argument is that really there has been a decline in concern for the common good over the past 50 or so years. We've seen it with corporations moving from stakeholder concerns to stockholder concerns and maximizing profits, with politicians focusing more on winning than on governing, and then of course with the collusion (where the definite collusion occurs) between the two. Our elected officials and the moneyed interests working together for their own benefits rather than the benefit of the people as a whole.

Seems like something Marx predicted over 150 years ago.