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Of, For, and By the Rich

Middle Nation · 8 Jun 2024 · 1:00 · YouTube

It's a plutocracy. It's ruled by the rich, of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. Democracy in America is just a smokescreen. It's a charade that they perform every election cycle just to pacify you. I mean, look at the reality.

For roughly the first one hundred years of American so called democracy, only white male property owners could vote. This gradually expanded to include all white males and then theoretically, black males, but not in practice, in theory. Eventually, they had to grant the vote to women and native Americans. Imagine that, the indigenous people of that land were the last to be given the right to vote in that land. As the franchise of voting expanded to include those who were not white male property owners, the real power moved further and further away from the democratic process.

They dangled the right to vote in front of you to make you think that you're a participant in power, but they kept the real power in the hands of the wealthy elite more and more so over the years. As the right to vote expanded, the relevance of the vote contracted. I said no one ever intended for power to be in the hands of the people and it

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