Synchronicity

I was surprised when I came across the article The Latest Bush Mega-Catastrophe... ~ it's similar to what I've been pondering for several years.

Is Bush the Anti-Christ?

The Latest Bush Mega-Catastrophe Is Now Pharmaceuticals

No matter what you think of George W. Bush, he is staking out his claim as a bona fide Horseman of the Apocalypse.

A First-Rate Country Run by Second-Rate People

Like Bush's America, Howard's Australia is not so much a democracy as a plutocracy, governed for and by the "big end of town," even though, as Mark Twain pointed out, this is "an entire continent peopled by the lower orders." He was not that far out; for my generation, like that of my parents, we were the poor who had got away. There was a sense that we had inherited something other than the British legacy. Long before the rest of the western world, Australians gained a minimum wage, an eight-hour working day, pensions, maternity allowance, child benefits and the vote for women. The secret ballot was invented here and became known as the "Australian ballot." The Australian Labour Party formed governments 25 years before any comparable social democracy in Europe. In the 1960s, with the exception of the Aboriginal people - who are always the exception - Australians could boast the most equitable spread of personal income in the world.

I should find some comfort in knowing the US is not alone. Afterall, misery loves company, right? But I don't. I feel just as bad for them as I do for us.

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Plutocracy

Democracy

BTW: I love the message Wiki displays on it's Democracy page:

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That made my afternoon.