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'No, I mean that Democracy even in its purest form can be argued to make no sense for a modern world which has outgrown the scope for which the system was originally intended.​ '

Democracy seems to work OK at local levels where I live in the UK. Councillors are responsible, they don't waste money, they provide the services they are tasked to provide. Funnily enough, voting in local elections is way lower than in national elections.

Democracy at national level struggles because the rich and powerful seek to buy it. It only takes a few bad apples accepting $1bn over 4 years to make the honest struggle to remain elected. AIPAC has completely corrupted US democracy at a national level yet no politician will stop the criminality.

However, what is the alternative? You have a dictator, who miraculously won't be corrupt, won't be bought? Yeah right, let's look around the world for examples of honest dictators, shall we? And then make a list of dishonest ones. I'm sure if you could open up the private details of Swiss banking you would uncover the extent to which dishonest dictators have stolen from their people and transferred the stolen money outside the country.....

The problem democracy has right now is 'free capital movement'. So long as money can shift across borders without popular consent, then all the true power exists within the owners of that capital. Economies can be crashed to order, simply by holders of capital organising 'capital flight'. They make these threats all the time to extract/extort promises of further riches. 99% of those doing the extorting have no further need for capital, but they do it out of habit. Because they can. Not because it's right.

Closed systems are amenable to democracy.

Open ones are more amenable to financial oligarchy.

Thing is: Plato taught everyone thousands of years ago that democracy is usually followed by tyranny.

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In this era of DNA testing, it can be proven beyond all doubt that the dead body is NOT Michael Crooks if the DNA bears little resemblance to the DNA of his two parents, both of whom remain alive.

Presumably the body was cremated before such rudimentary sample collections could be made??

Whether the body can be proven to be Maxwell Yearick depends on whether MYs parents are still alive, whether he has any siblings still alive etc etc.

Conspiracy theories can be tested very quickly these days, but one suspects that the very last thing that the authorities want to do is actually pursue the truth......

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