TheWickerMan
join:2002-04-09
Enola, PA
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Re: $$$$$
Very sad. Our country was founded on a very simple but fair idea -- One person, one vote. Somewhere along the line, it became "One dollar, one vote." And let's face it, these big companies have a lot more dollars/votes than we do. Power of the people, R.I.P.  |
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Corrector
@shh.fi | >Our country was founded on a very simple but fair idea -- One person, one vote.
Wrong. The country never allowed non-whites to vote until at least a century later, and regarded slaves as half-humans.
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Buggy
join:2000-10-24
Tampa, FL | said by Corrector:
and regarded slaves as half-humans.
I thought it was 2/3 ?? |
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Changing Definitions
@atl-ga.ds
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It has always been one person, one vote. What changed is our concept of "person". When originally spoken, it was understood that a Person was (generally) a white land-owning male. Now, we use the broader definition of Person. In fact, they probably would have said one Citizen, one vote back then, which would have made the point clearer, I suppose.
The original point is still valid in any case. One person has become one dollar, and a very small % of the people have a very large % of the dollars.
We stopped being a Republic (we were never a Democracy) some time ago. |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | reply to Corrector
Oh how we've shifted. |
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