re: This is a 9/11 video no one has ever seen before. What a view.

It only took NY 25 years to forget

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It only took NY 25 years to forget

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Less than that, most of them voted for Obama.

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The fatal flaw of representative democracy is that anyone with enough money can just buy government officials.

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This is absolutely correct, but the biggest point you're missing is that under our system, there are a lot of people with enough money. Those people with money come from all walks of life and all have differing points of view and want different things. Through 250 years of this experiment, the majority of these "people with money" have paid for what's best for Americans who wanted more opportunity to make money.

The Socialists are the exact opposite. They don't want normal people to have any money. Socialism in it's purist form, Communism, ensures that nobody has any money. That way, the ruling party is a monarchy and only the people "in the club" can enjoy more than a subsistence living. "The Club" is thus controlled by it's leaders and is no different than a Royal Family in the middle ages.

As you said, humans will always be humans, and many will always be looking to take advantage of others.

Capitalism and a Representative Democracy has been the only system in human history that gives the majority of the people an opportunity to increase their economic standing through their own volition.

Every born American has an opportunity to make enough money to buy a politician. We are one of the few countries on earth where this is possible.