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I struggle to find the points in your posts. Yes capitalism has a great many problems. I agree about doing something about it, but are you also suggesting democracy is bad?
Liberal democracy isn't democratic, and electoralism as a means of systemic change doesn't work. Socialist democracy does work, and delivers far higher rates of approval and perceptions of democracy being effective.
I would argue the core issue is more fundamental. Liberalism holds the rights of private property as inviolable, thereby placing them beyond public debate. It's a system that establishes an economic structure where the critical decisions over resources and labor are made by the few who own the means of production. Such an arrangement is irreconcilable with any meaningful definition of democracy.
Absolutely. It's democracy for the few, dictatorship for the many.