Capitalism guarantees free-market competition ... or kills democracy? Why is democracy dying?

[Fred Sanders]

Paul B. Farrell
Jan. 19, 2014, 9:48 a.m. EST


"Yes, the illusion lives on in our history books, the rhetoric of politicians, manipulating the minds of 95 million investors. The propaganda machine works. But the democracy we fought and died for since 1776 is fading. The Super Rich own America. Forget the 537 politicians we elected to Washington. Puppets for a Super Rich elite that control through their lobbyists. Can we solve it?

Are conspiracy theorists lunatics? No, we’re just solving problems!

Scientific American got the heart racing by focusing on this human need, asking the big question: “Why do people believe in conspiracy theories?” Why fall for them? What make us “believe” in something? Yes, our brains do love solving puzzles, murder mysteries, hoaxes, con games, frauds. The reason: Because all self-deceptions are a search for “simple explanations for complex societal events that restore a sense of control and predictability.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-big-money-mysteries-we-have-to-solve-to-survive-2014-01-18

[WinkyDink]

1. The 1% oligarchy has bought governments and courts, is why.

[L0oniX]

2. As I have been saying for a while now ...democracy is an illusion.

[Igel]

3. This first question, of course--the main question in the OP--is simpler.

Is this a mystery in need of a solution, or a false mystery caused by uncertainty and the brain's need to quick, easy solutions? It's easy to read over, esp. if you've already devised a ready-made answer to the question. Ahem.

Thirty years the response was pretty much the opposite: Capitalism supports democracy.

Since it's been capitalism for well over a century, the best option--if democracy really is being destroyed--is to look elsewhere. If democracy is being destroyed, look for when it started and what changed soon before, and what's been changing similarly as democracy continues to be destroyed.