mark47n
I tried to stay out it, I tried to stay away because it’s just the same old crap over and over and over…including from me.
Oh Captain my Captain: Here’s what you said:
The US could have only been proven to be a plutocracy if Clinton was elected. She wasn’t, therefore the plutocracy was an illusion. So no, I don’t believe that the redistribution of wealth through taxation and welfare makes a more productive society because getting stuff for free makes people lazy.
What are you trying to say here? Your 1st sentence claims that HRC is supported by plutocrats is a wobbly claim at best. If you’d be so kind as to indicate who those plutocrats are that would be super! Yes, HRC had super big corporate donors lined up for her. That, in and of itself, doesn’t make her a plutocrat. Trump funded his campaign, if you can call it that, out of his own shifty and highly dubious pocket. That is plutocracy in action, make no mistake.
Let’s go one to your second and third sentences “She wasn’t [HRC], therefore the plutocracy was an illusion. So no, I don’t believe that the redistribution of wealth through taxation and welfare makes a more productive society because getting stuff for free makes people lazy.” You can’t use a negative as proof for anything. As to the third sentence, my personal favorite, but only taken in context of the 1st and 2nd, where you equate plutocracy with the redistribution of wealth. Do you actually know what plutocracy is? Here’s the definition from Merriam-Webster:
Definition of plutocracy
plural plutocracies
1: government by the wealthy
2: a controlling class of the wealthy
plutocrat \ˈplü-tə-ˌkrat\ noun
Here are a few example sentence lifted straight from the website:
If only the wealthy can afford to run for public office, are we more a plutocracy than a democracy?
Or:
Corporate greed and America’s growing plutocracy.
I will admit that the definition indicates that we’re a plutocracy, at face value, but then again, it’s the same in every nation. Perhaps we should say that we are governed by the [wealthy] people for the [wealthy] people and hope that some of that wealth rubs off…like trickle down economics. The question for me is what those in government DO. Do they ensure that the least among us are protected? That they have access to clean water and food (I’ll steer clear of medical care as my views on for profit healthcare/insurance and the scam that system is will definitely show my red roots…oops) and other basic needs? Do they ensure that we’ll have clean air to breathe, not only for us, but for generations to come? Or do they ensure that money will continue to accumulate in their pockets, peddle influence and maybe include their children in meetings at the highest level, for no reason other that just because.
Boy are those weeds tempting! But I digress: I think the true test of whether or not we are a plutocracy is answered by who Trump appoints to cabinet positions. I can certainly tell you that, so far, it’s authoritarian goons, thieves and demagogues of the worst sort. Oh, and RACISTS!
I hope I straightened this out for you, after all, Fox, Breitbart, the Drudge Report and the National Review and other sites you read and have oft cited as “news” may have misled you to the meaning of the word plutocracy.