Democracy Or Plutocracy? A Chart

DEMOCRACY	PLUTOCRACY
We, the People	Wealthy Few
One Person One Vote	One Dollar One Vote
Government	Limited Government
Majority	Supermajority
Information	Propaganda
Taxes on the Wealthy	Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
Budgets	Budget Cuts
Jobs programs	Bank Bailouts
Welfare	Warfare
Express Lanes for 2 or More People	Express Lanes for 2 or More Dollars
Security Lines at Airports	Special First-Class Security Lanes at Airports
Public Schools	Private Schools
Public Investment	Private Investment

Update:

Public Transportation	Private Jets
Accountability	Impunity
Rule Of Law	Above The Law
Transparency	Secrecy
Sustainable growth	Polluter Growth
Medicare-For-All	Healthcare For Profit
Clean Elections	Rigged Elections
Savings Accounts	Offshore Accounts
Credit Card Debt	Credit Default Swaps
Union members	Serfs
Layoffs	Payoffs
Homies	Cronies
Grassroots	Astroturf

Feel free to add additional contrasts in the comments.

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Comments

[tekno2600]

06:52 PM on 01/29/2011

The most amazing thing to me about all of this is that Republicans have convinced people to support tax cuts for the rich at the same time as claiming they're cutting the deficit. It used to be when we got into a crisis like the Great Depression, where Wall Street elites crashed the economy and stole everyone's money, we raised taxes on the rich and took away their power. Now, when Wall Street crashes the economy, they tell us its time to cut pensions, Social Security, and even cut jobs programs. Basically, they want to take from the poor instead of the rich to pay for the mistakes of the rich. And, at the same time, they still want tax cuts for the rich. I made a short video about this, which I think sums up the problem in just a few minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0Pn8kW6HBk

[Genders]

05:28 PM on 01/29/2011

Democracy: 1 citizen, one vote.

Plutocracy: as many votes as you can buy.

[offred]

06:37 PM on 01/28/2011

Democracy: working and shopping at WalMart

Plutocracy: Owning WalMart

[offred]

06:21 PM on 01/28/2011

Demcracy: hamburger occasionally, round steak on special occasions

Plutocracy: even the hamburger is ground from prime filet mignon

[offred]

06:19 PM on 01/28/2011

Democracy: lower, middle and upper class

Plutocracy: upper 2 percent and serfs

[Dave Johnson]

06:45 PM on 01/28/2011

I have something like this in an update, if you keep hitting refresh yo'll see it eventually.

[CoachJM]

05:18 PM on 01/28/2011

Dave,

Equal justice under the law vs. wealthy & privileged above the law.

JM

[Dave Johnson]

06:45 PM on 01/28/2011

When it updates I have accountability vs impunity and rule of law vs above the law.

[eric14]

03:30 PM on 01/28/2011

Dave, that's not a chart. That's a two column table.

[jdevans]

04:31 PM on 01/28/2011

A two-column table that's hard to read because advertisements cover up part of it.

[Dave Johnson]

05:11 PM on 01/28/2011

Looks great in Chrome, let me check it in IE.

Looks great in IE and Firefox...

?? Ar eyou on a Mac?

[offred]

06:17 PM on 01/28/2011

I don't have a problem with advertisements obscuring it.

[offred]

06:18 PM on 01/28/2011

picky picky picky

To a humanities major like me, my first reaction would have been to call it a chart too.

[eric14]

06:25 PM on 01/28/2011

The moment after I pressed ''post comment the word ''picky'' sounded in my head like a warning from the cosmos. Or from the Sheriff in Fargo!