Oligarchy
I was looking for writings on “problems with democracy” and came across this article: http://www.oligarchy.net/ which is apparently originally from: http://www.truthbeknown.com/democrac.htm
The article claims that what we call a “democracy” here in the US now is actually an oligarcy. That seems to be about right from what I’ve seen of the world and this government. It also claims that since we have single rulers like presidents or prime ministers that we might even call our “democracy” an autocracy, ‘rule of the one.’ That’s a point John Buck made in 2001 when he was giving sociocracy workshops at Twin Oaks where I lived. He also pointed out that most of our businesses follow the autocratic principle without even trying to disguise it as democracy, so most of the organizations in our country are unabashedly autocratic.
I looked up Oligarcy and the definition is basically ‘rule of the few.’
This looks like a pretty good site, but I just don’t have time to read it!: http://www.oligarchyusa.com/ Part of the mission statement says: “To restore a semblance of effective democracy and true freedom Americans, and people around the world, need to re-educate themselves as to the true nature of their political and economic systems. Toward this end, OligarchyUSA.com is dedicated to providing old and new information, books, links, reform ideas and debates not easily found or accessed today in establishment media.”
I like that the site creator also talks about banking - the subject of my next documentary!
A quote from that site: “We are back to an oligarchy pretending to be a republic pretending to be a democracy.” Ed Henry
So, okay, we do seem to live in an oligarchy (Oiligarchy?) Can sociocracy potentially even out that power? Maybe. It seems like the best bet because it was designed to do that. Of course, it’s up to the people here who every day due to ignorance and dependency give up power to the oligarchs. They need to see that they are not getting an accurate picture from the mainstream media. They need to realize how the world and the US really work. They need to want to do something about it. They are going to have to see the options that many people have already worked out that will help us through this crisis that has already begun. Then they have to act. Stop laughing! It could happen!!
September 15th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
America has always been an oligarchy - set up to be upset from time to time by popular vote when the oligarchy screws up things - like during the Great Depression. That’s just the nature of a majority voting system. The oligarchy website people are wasting their time.