@2 Will in Seattle: Agreed and seconded. We could make it even greater still by ousting fossil fuel industry-coddling Senator-turned- Ambassador of Cambodia and former Washington State Trump Campaign Manager,, Doug the Thug Ericksen, R.,---Ferndale (42nd District).
Big corporations have enough money to hire the biggest lobbyists and make the biggest campaign contributions, to get laws written the way they want.
The end result is we have to pay bribes to those big corporations or else they'll wreck our environment. Pollute our neighborhoods.
What it means, when capitalism combines with "democracy".
The rich guys just buy votes.
When the ancient Greeks invented democracy, it was 10 centuries before capitalism was invented.
This is great.
As in five years too late.
But still great.
@2 Will in Seattle: Agreed and seconded. We could make it even greater still by ousting fossil fuel industry-coddling Senator-turned- Ambassador of Cambodia and former Washington State Trump Campaign Manager,, Doug the Thug Ericksen, R.,---Ferndale (42nd District).
"The tragedy of the commons".
Big corporations have enough money to hire the biggest lobbyists and make the biggest campaign contributions, to get laws written the way they want.
The end result is we have to pay bribes to those big corporations or else they'll wreck our environment. Pollute our neighborhoods.
What it means, when capitalism combines with "democracy".
The rich guys just buy votes.
When the ancient Greeks invented democracy, it was 10 centuries before capitalism was invented.