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• #Meritocratic plutocracy full

One of the greatest limiting factors preventing candidates is the massive amounts of money needed to get elected. True grassroots candidates are few and far between. Although we have two political parties, our choices have been traditionally limited by whomever the wealthy and powerful elites have chosen to run therefore limiting our choice to one elite candidate or the other. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally addressed this denial of legitimate citizens’ right to vote and we became a true representative democracy.Īs more and more Americans have been given the right to vote, the battle has shifted to the selection of candidates who will stand for election for the various political offices. Unfortunately, one group was routinely denied their constitutional right to vote southern blacks. Finally with the 19th Amendment giving women suffrage, all US citizens were given the right to vote.

#Meritocratic plutocracy full

Amendments to the Constitution have empowered more and more people to full participatory citizenship.

However, over the course of our history, if we determine the level of democracy by who is eligible to vote, we have become more democratic over the course of time. One only has to look to who was eligible to vote to determine their intent white property owners. I don’t think that it ever occurred to the founding fathers that anyone other than the elite would be in positions of power. When the US Constitution was ratified, it was ratified by the elected elite within each state. The elite elected or chose the legislative representatives who drew up, first the Articles of Confederation and then the Constitution. If we honestly look at it, our system of government started out much closer to that of plutocracy than a true democracy. In keeping with the principles of the enlightenment a republican democracy was chosen as the government structure. It didn’t matter whether the wealth came from mercantilism or agriculture, what mattered was their wealth and social position. The “founding fathers” were, by all measures the best educated, leading “enlightenment” thinkers of North America and some of the wealthiest men on the continent. If we look at our history and our founding, the break from the British Monarchy was conceived of and promoted by the colonial elites. Clearly this premise was and is untrue but, is the United States truly a representative democracy or is it a plutocracy in disguise, controlled by the wealthy elite and, have we been educated and led to believe that we are living in a merit based democracy? It’s no secret that what the Nazis were referring to was a thinly veiled reference for what they promoted as Jewish global banking dominance.