My mother always told me people who should be in power avoided being in power like the plague and that's why regards have power

democracy isn't actually mob rule, not in practice, anyway

Every government is a defacto oligarchy

Or somewhere between oligarchy and technocracy

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I always assume the one on the other side is a man and treat him that way.
If its a Woman. Well, discrimination FTW *muhahahaha* 😄

You've got the elite/ruling class (whatever you want to call it) and they retain power through appeasement

Oligarchy is the most stable order

it just to happens in democracies that this appeasement is bribery

And it is not bad or good by itself

Yeah, but I'd assume we are in for some enormous changes in the next 100 Years.

It's what the members of said oligarchy do that matters

the Morons in Europe are forcing things to stay the same with the Link Tax and shit like that but the fall can only get harder and the people here are just not happy with the Gouvernment.

@Stefan Payne Real power never changes hands

@Stefan Payne might as well go extinct

Yeah, nobody cares about tanners or smiths these days.

in the next 50 years, nobody will care about Journalists

there will be a revolution. And you can buy 10 Big Media Companys. You can not buy 2 Million People with a phone

Yeah but how would that defeat the nationless oligarchs that run everything

Revolution is happened already it's just sipping into the normal society

tim is rocking the hitler stache

In the next 5 years the center would be dead and sides have been made

he should shave it off

Society might change. Culture will definitely change. But the powerful aren't gonna lose their power unless someone kills them (and nobody will kill them, nor should you want to)

Even after order breaks down and we start getting the left vs right civil wars throughout the west, the corrupt people are still going to run everything

We're gonna need them afterwards to rebuild

@Copernicus You miss one thing: TRUMP

and there is a reason why German partys are so afraid of the AfD

These political parties don't matter, my guy

i still dont understand what the afd is

deutsche welle and shit dont really advertise the party

Those who rule we cannot see

@R9b1t Its a center right, euro skeptic, slightly nationalistic party that is anti immigration

Trump doesn't have enough power to change anything. No president does.

@awakening 290 exactly. And that's pretty much the natural order of things

doesnt sound that bad

and when groups call it populist, it only furthers my interest

its not but they are called Nazis all the time...

but why is populism bad?

in the Parliament they troll the Gouvernment all the time

good

Because protectionism is snake oil @R9b1t