Monday, January 23, 2017

Can 'Real' Democracy survive a 'Plutocratic White House'?

A 'Real' Democracy, by definition, includes 'each' and 'every' 'real human being' situated at the Bottom of Government. In such a democracy, the entire Bottom would live in Freedom and Equality. At least, that is the goal of a 'real democracy'; and the Top would be an elected Body of Representatives. To the contrary, a Plutocracy is Government by the rich. In our situation, that would be the 1% and then 'some'. If, and only if, the 1% decide to govern all the People at the Bottom in a 'democratic' manner, i. e. by Freedom and Equality, a Democracy 'could' be possible. Of course, that is very unlikely. Remember, the Top is the Government and the Bottom is the 'Governed'. In the relation of the Top to the Bottom of Government, the Bottom remains relatively helpless with respect to the way the Top chooses to Govern. The problematic that arises is two-fold. In our 'assumed' situation, the Top is 'Plutocratic' and the engine that drives Plutocracy is Economics,i.e., Profits and Money. It is unlikely that the Top would not take advantage of the Political, Executive positions that they hold to increase their Profits and their hold on money. Economics is 'organized' in a manner that the end product of all economic activity is Profits. The problematic is that the economy cannot drive a 'political entity'. Only Democracy, or a form of democracy can drive the Bottom with Freedom and Equality. Hence, a Plutocracy, constituted by only 1% of the People, could 'awaken' the 99% at the Bottom and that would be millions and millions of 'Real' People. That gives rise to the Second factor; i.e., the awakening of the Bottom in a real democracy can result in a continuous organization of demonstrations in the social. There is no way that a Plutocracy could survive the 'awakening' of the Bottom of a democracy. The People have a Constitutional Right to implement the First Amendment and hence, a Plutocracy would be powerless to function as such. In a 'contest' between the two forms of Government, a Democracy would prevail. A Democratic White House could never become a 'Plutocratic White House'. That would be an oxymoron. In time, a 'Plutocracy' would self-destruct.

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