Originally Posted by
Slammin Shaman
I completely agree with that. Our President, the head of government, is nothing more than a figure-head. The top 1% of the people own 99% of the wealth, and those same people are the essentially the same ones who run this country. The police, the people sworn in to protect and serve us, are more commonly seen brutalizing the very same people. I'm not saying that all of them are like that, but they slowly seem to be headed that way.
But about what Poodles said, from the outside looking in, this would seem as if it is veering closer to a dictatorship or something. It's been a while since I had a class over government types.