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People have the Power

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Promise of a Democracy Is One Man, All the Votes

The promise of a democracy is one man, won vote. The promise of extreme capitalism is, one man, all the votes. And so what we saw was over the last five, or, i me, ten years, is that the pleope who were left out by this hyper capitalism, as embraced by jack welch, voted for Donald Trump. So the pendulum swings, tend to swing towards populism before it swings back to liberal democracy. But unlike the sort of pendulum you'd see in engineering, which mechanically swings quite smoothly,. In the real world of human beings, that pendulum swings erratically.

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