Capitalism is like a horse. It is strong and it is powerful. A horse without a rider will go wherever it wants to go.
So, when we talk about capitalism, we must talk about the horse jockey as well. Who rides the horse? What government is in place?
Is government as strong as a six-year old horse jockey, never capable of steering the horse away from disastrous pathways? Is it a mature and trim rider? Is the horse jockey big and fat and the horse not moving much?
There are many successful capitalist nations that are governed well for all people. Let's look at their horse jockeys:
Not many have a president. Rather, they have empowered prime-ministers. A prime-minister is not elected, but is the result of the large group of representatives that were elected by the voters. He or she is their head. And that head is pulled out of that chair quickly if the prime-minister turned out to be a lousy horse jockey.
Many good nations do not have winner-take-all. With winner-take-all, the voters compete with the voters who gets the seat, and that undermines the power of the voters. When only the majority wins the seat, then the elected representatives are never representative of all people, not possible. Voters competing with voters leads to an elitist democracy, an exclusive democracy.
In many good nations, they have full representation, an inclusive democracy. The word proportional means delivering the same portions. When ten percent of the voters voted Green, then Green gets ten percent of the seats. Both portions are identical. We do not have that (but we should, read on).
Large nations, such as the USA, need to be careful because twenty little parties will not lead to the horse being controlled really well. But two parties is definitively not enough. A normal color copier has red, blue, yellow and black ink, and that means that four parties can deliver all we need in a horse jockey to control capitalism from running amok.
Join Local Revolutions grassroots organization. We follow the US Constitution. We say that it says:
Federal Level: Concentration of Powers, so the nation will be strong.
State levels: XXXXX (the US Constitution is a bit contrary, so a legally gray area in light of voting systems).
Local Levels: We The People galore. For certain, the Ninth, the Tenth, and the Fourteenth Amendment tell governments that they must serve the People and not the other way around (unless specifically mentioned as such in the US Constitution).
What we find in place, however:
Federal Level: Concentration of Powers
State levels: Concentration of Powers
Local Levels: Concentration of Powers
The State powers that be did not give us what is ours. They operate a form of elections that are not what the US Constitution tells them to do (but unfortunately, the US Constitution is not clear about the powers of the State, so they can get away with snubbing their noses). Yet at the local levels, we must have the We The People voting system that Thomas Jefferson already devised. The powers that be are not giving us our We The People freedom, not even at the level where that is very clearly stated. Come join us.
