What an absolute treasure Robert and Sam Reich are.
Last stage democracy
If you live in Europe and think your democratic system is resistant to these things: it's not.
Don't wait until your version of Trump gets elected. Start organizing now.
think your democratic system is resistant
It's way more resistant than in US - society is far less polarized, far less trusts politicians, and also, far seems to be less prone to cult of personalities
far less trusts politicians
crazy thing is... that is the exact reason why trump is winning in the States. Someone comes along, crass, rude, claiming to be a layman and the people here ate that up, thinking "now here is a person like us, not like the established politician class" and despite the rhetoric, or due to it, along with suppression and disinformation, he got elected.
Just wait a bit. It'll crack sooner or later.
This is fascism 101.
Fascism is at least as much an economic system as a political one, or more precisely, it's more like an economic system hiding behind a political system.
And the way the economic system works is very simple - private ownership of the means of production combined with an overt and institutionalized revolving door between business and government, so that the end result is plutocratic oligarchy.
Basically, it's taking the system that already existed in the US, by which the wealthy bought access to political power mostly surreptitiously and nominally illegally unless they followed specific restrictions, and legitimizes and formalizes and institutionalizes it and moves it right out into the open.
And behind all of the white supremacist and christian nationalist and reactionary conservative rhetoric, this was always the real goal.
Speedrunning the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
We're already speedrunning climate-based societal collapse, so there's not really much time to slow walk these things.
He also spent 44 billion buying twitter to disrupt and control the conversations happening there as part of his efforts, and now the the government essentially has a data mining tool and propaganda machine without actually 'owning' it.
Any of those 2a weirdos gonna show us what 2a is for or not?
I see a lot of domestic enemies around and suddenly the obese, insanely loud dipshits aren't making a peep.
To be fair, a couple of them already tried.
No, they love the boot on their face, as long as someone they hate also has a boot on their face.
The term is crony capitalism.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crony_capitalismJust capitalism taken to the logical conclusion. This term implies there's some form of capitalism in which this doesn't happen. There is not.
Turns out it really is all a big club and we didn't get invited.
Carlin had it right 30 years ago
I guess technically he spent $44.13 billion
Okay but... blaming the other side gets tiring after a few decades. When will we blame those who allowed it, and moreover how much did Kamala Harris spend by comparison?
If it's still too raw and early for such, please just ignore me. I'm still spinning, like all of us, and seeing desperately for some reasoning to help make sense of it all.
Its not about the amount of money that was spent, its about the obvious conflict of interest between the individuals private interests, and the government controlling how much tax payers funds are being funnelled into their private interests.
Have the dems fucked around and found out? Sure, but don't compare a failure to save a bad status quo (D) with a concerted effort to rebuild the status quo in a way that exclusively benefits them (R)
What do the campaign expenditures of Kamala Harris have to do with how much Elon Musk paid as what boils down to a bribe to Trump?
yes for him the USA is just a high return investment and livelihoods of the US citizens are just expandibles.
