• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Crazy how “liberal democracy” always equals governance “by the wealthy, for the wealthy”, huh?

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      6 hours ago

      What “democracy”?!

      The whole point of Neoliberalism is to have Money be a higher power than the State (which is the part controlled by voters via elected representatives) - their entire schtick being all about how the Market should not be “interfered” with by the State and the State shouldn’t actually own or do anything other than National Defense and a Judicial System - so the very opposite of Democracy (were the greatest power of all is that of voters and it is not restricted to just some areas).

      This kind of “liberalism” is never and was never about Democracy (though it definitelly disguises itself as “democratic”), it has always been about replacing Democracy with Oligarchy.