bait and switch is such an awesome tactic. The roman history here and view of roman history is accurate and fine. The bombastic political blathering afterward, not so much. Why is democracy something to be strived for? We have a system that a MINORITY of the citizens get to put a TINY MINORITY of people in charge of millions of people. Thats a terrible system by any standard. And we consider this system as superior to an actual, majority rules, democrcy.

The list of countries you list as better and claim it's because funds were extracted from the populace by force and given to media, I just see as smaller countries. The economic system you seem to be pushing is the same one that is shared by the WORST of the countries around the world. public funding of everything is an awful condition. Having a small group of people deciding what should and should not be publicly funded is a path that the power hungry love.