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We do not live in a democracy. Catering to individual greed and selfishness, even to the determent of the entire country is what our so-called democracies are all about. In our so-called democracies everyone claims their own individual freedom rights even to the point of demanding the law throw away the religious moral rights and beliefs of the majority to cater to them and it is done. The majority does not rule the world’s so-called democracies. The reality is that the majority have their so-called rights trampled under to cater to minority interests.

Where is the pretence of the majority rules when the courts are allowed to twist the meaning of laws to promote their own personal ideals of catering to individual greed and selfishness even to the determent of the entire country? The election process itself proves that democracies promote individual selfishness and not the majority rule because, to get elected, the politicians have to cater to loud mouthed selfish groups that can give him/her their grouped votes in tightly contested ridings or give them to his/her opponent. So the politicians cater to the wealthy for their election campaign funds and retirement opportunities and to those minority groups for their immediate selfish interest of getting elected and re-elected. Consider the recent action in the US where the majority of the people worked feverishly to tell the politicians that they did not want them to pass the $700 Billion Bailout package yet the politicians ignored them and did as they pleased. Was that democracy at work? I wonder if they’ll have another tea party.

There are an awful lot of people complaining about the state of the economy, yet those same people don’t seem to realize that the basic democratic freedom economy that allows everyone to seek their own path to happiness and profit, without responsibility or concern for others, is what caused all the economic problems. The many companies that shuffled so many jobs out of America were just following the opportunities the governments gave them, and only seeking their individual rights to cater to their own selfish interests with no concern for the resulting affects on others which is what our democracies promote. The same as the banks and financial companies that also put their quick profit above the concerns of the country to sell and trade those mortgages that were designed with the full knowledge that most of them would fail were also only following their democratic right to seek their enjoyment and self interests even if at the expense of the entire country.

There is no real democracy on Earth. The wealthy and vilest rule the politicians not the majority of the people. Democracy is only a pretended concept to keep the masses in line under the false belief that they have control over those who rule them. The people in our so-called democratic countries are just getting a small sample of what they will eventually reap through pursuing the greedy selfish course with no responsibility or concern for the combined consequences of the practice.

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