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by schiffern 2724 days ago
>We have democracy. We vote in representatives. We discuss policies with peers and campaign for people who represent changes we want to see.

Read and/or watch Manufacturing Consent. This is what Chomsky calls[1] the "standard model" of social democratic societies (the one that the technical class helping run society must be "deeply indoctrinated" to believe).

Problem is, if you look at whose interests are actually represented in our politics it's nothing but a pacifying fiction. His "alternate model" describes how the society actually functions, and... well... why spoil the video? :D

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE&19m48s