POLS20100 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Final Exam Notes - Capitalism, Democracy, History Of The United States Republican Party
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Trump had not colluded with russia during the 2016 election; however, this does not mean that people who worked on his campaign did not: it was also discovered that trump was trying to build a trump tower in. It makes us feel like we have a say. It also makes us feel like we have control over our own lives, which adds to the appeal: democracy empowers the demos. In the us, a lot of decisions get pushed into the private category when it is profitable and convenient to do so. *previous exam question: because our political system and everything depends on domination, contradiction of capitalism according to marx, capitalism encourages higher education and higher thinking. It is possible to balance this (for example, scandinavian countries): the government performs economic tasks, the capitalists perform political tasks, they employ and discipline people.
