Free market capitalism has demonstrated that the market controls the economic

and hence political agenda. Who and what constitutes the market? What is the
market's purpose? Who elected any of the participants in the market? What are the
political affiliations of these participants? How wealthy are they? In what way do they
express the General Will of the People? Is the market designed to operate in the
public good? Do our political leaders have any control over the market? Do they
know exactly how the market functions and how it contributes (or not) to the public
good? Do they know the identities of all the market participants and their respective
agendas? Are they able to inform the People exactly what role the market plays? We
all know the answer. Our leaders are clueless. They don't control the market; the
market controls them.

The market constitutes an unelected, unaccountable, extra-political entity that

nevertheless dominates the political space and can bring down presidents, prime
ministers and entire national economies. It can provoke global economic crises and
yet governments have ZERO control over it. Don't you find that somewhat odd? How
can anyone talk of the people being in charge of the political process if the market
dictates government policy? Free markets and democracy are INCOMPATIBLE. You
cannot have a democracy if you have a market-controlled economy external to the
political process and unaccountable to the electorate.

Democracy likes to trumpet the fact that you can remove unpopular politicians and
governments, implying that you get the government you choose, yet there is no
mechanism whatever for removing the controllers of the marketplace, the people who
run free market capitalism hence the people who actually run democracy. If you can't
remove them then you have no power at all and you are at their mercy.

The rich aren't stupid. They gave people democracy because they knew it changed
nothing. The market retains all of the real power and THEY are the market. If the rich
can't be removed from the market for corruption, greed, the pursuit of naked self-
interest and actively acting against the public good then the people have no power.
Democracy is a sham. The truth is that the market and its controllers are beyond the
reach of the electorate while completely controlling the fate of the electorate. They
are outside democracy and yet they run the democratic system. Is that not genius?
The legions of dumbed down, manipulated and brainwashed masses who will fight to
the death for democracy haven't noticed that their political system is a farce and
gives them no power at all. Democracy is simply a disguised plutocracy - rule by the
rich - operating via the "sacrosanct", unregulated market where the rich hold all of the
cards and the poor have no say.

It need not be like this. "Social" capitalism, as opposed to free market capitalism, is
structured to ensure that there are no extra-political entities that dictate to
governments and are capable of destroying the economy. Markets must be
subordinated to politics, not the other way around. Every element of the political
process must be defined (because how can you understand, regulate and control
undefined entities) and must be subject to the will of the people; otherwise it's
ridiculous to talk of "people power". The market is neither defined nor does it have
any connection whatever with the public good.

Who are the authors of free market capitalism? - THE RICH.

Who are the beneficiaries of free market capitalism? - THE RICH.

Who are the controllers of the economic and political agenda? - THE RICH.

WAKE UP! Democracy and its diabolical twin - free market capitalism - must be
abolished. It's time for Meritocracy and social capitalism operating in the public good.

"It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking system, for if
they did, I believe there would be a revolution by tomorrow morning." -- Henry Ford