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We just watched a guy become a trillionaire and dump 200 million dollars into an election for the most powerful seat on the planet. But you don't think the problem is capitalism????
Citizens United would be my first target. Campaign finance laws in general coming next. A big root cause lies in ownership of "the free press," that one will be trickier, where does "news" stop and "entertainment" begin - and how would you ever regulate politics out of "entertainment" without impacting free speech? But, it's important to address if you want to really reduce money's influence in politics. Unfortunately, our legislators have been running the opposite direction for decades and the ballot box seems ineffective at convincing them to turn around.
Targeting capitalism, or communism, or pastafarianism, is pointless - they're big fuzzy clouds that you can't define, can't contain.
Pls watch this video
The first 30 seconds are going down a very sensible path. It's not our figureheads which "rule us" - it's the people who put them in power. In theory it's a democracy, in practice it's a mish-mash where the opinions of the masses can be, and are, manipulated by those with the resources and inclination to do so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film) hit pretty close to my perception of "how it works" in their little monologue about "who makes the decisions."
You're confusing religion with economic systems of government.
Capitalism and communism very much have definitions. Don't let your governments obfuscation of words cloud your mind.
Capitalism and communism very much have definitions, which are not actually practiced in anything resembling "pure form" anywhere on this planet in any society of more than a couple of thousand members in human history.
You might as well call our economic system a religion, like Pastafarianism, because what it actually is is a byzantine collection of laws and rules and regulations which have about as much to do with the "ideals" of either captialism or communism as your average US "Christian" Megachurch has to with the written teachings of Jesus.
Nah, man.