Don Quijones — Nato Summit Is Glaring Proof Of Demise Of Representative Government

A “ring of steel” some 12 miles long and costing over 110 million dollars was erected to protect the political representatives of some of the world’s freest and most democratic nations as they freely exchanged ideas and thoughts on how to preserve the West’s global domination at the barrel of a gun.…
The reason why Western political leaders feel the need for such heavy-duty protection from the people they’re charged with representing is quite simple: they no longer even pretend to represent them. Instead they have become little more than a protection racket for the world’s largest corporations and richest individuals. As the full scale of the betrayal slowly dawns on the people of the West, public rage is inevitably rising.….

Neoliberal capitalism and participatory democracy are antithetical. Capitalism prioritizes of the interests owners of the means of production, financial and actual over the interests and needs of society and the environment. This sets — money and machines ahead of people and the planet. Neoliberal capitalism is naturally oligarchic and anti-democratic, favoring representative democracy that can be captured by money and power to participatory democracy and genuine popular sovereignty.

Now, you can call such a system of governance whatever you want (I myself prefer the term “inverted totalitarianism), but one thing it is decidedly not is democracy.

Raging Bull-shit
Nato Summit Is Glaring Proof Of Demise Of Representative Government
Don Quijones