capitalism has created hierarchies where there are cruel morons with infinite money to spend on guys like this & on media to both promote & launder the reputations of guys like this. no one stopped the formation of a hyper-rich oligarchy, which was the Alternate Win Condition for liberal democracy.
The more I learn about US democracy, the more I realize the entire world has been bamboozled. There's no democracy in the US, if much, it's an oligarchy, in the most aristotelic way...
Democracy? A republic? Doesn't seem to fit the definition š¤ Oligarchy? Probably appropriate. Is it foreign influence of the most egregious sort? Yep, way beyond the blue MAGA Russiagate obsession. I think "rogue state" would also be a fair categorization.
A truly oppressed minority, the *checks notes* billionaire oligarchy whose wealth rested on the ownership of other people.
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They've turned reality into a partisan issue that is up for debate. Next they'll consider eliminating the observational element within the scientific method. Why? Because it jeopardizes their wealth, power and the system that sustains it. The iron law of oligarchy rings true.
This was very hard to write. I'm at Stanford this fall with a group of researchers I admire tremendously and cherish as colleagues. But Stanford, Johns Hopkins and now Emory are boosting COVID conspiracy theories and misinformation by hosting these gatherings. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why are places like Stanford and Johns Hopkins hosting gatherings of well-known coronavirus cranks?
One cannot plumb the depths of King Weirdo's complete failure at everything in life except being a sleeve for the flailing arm of oligarchy
In what came to be known as āOperation Pence Card,ā Trump spent weeks publicly and privately pushing his vice president to help him stay in power after losing. āYouāre too honest,ā Trump berated his vice president in that Jan. 1 morning call.
Mike Pence is no longer standing beside Donald Trump, and has refused to endorse the Republican nomineeās bid to return to the White House.
Duopoly is a form of oligopoly, and oligarchy isn't democracy. A ballot doesn't make a system automatically democratic.
Perfect! So, basically, due to gerrymandering, it's a failure of the system and not of the voters. It is in fact, authoritarian. An oligarchy to be specific.
In one sense, Rome was never destroyed. In another, Rome was destroyed because it fell to oligarchy. Rich, landed interests conspired to gain more control of government, more land. Common men (soldiers in particular) were cheated out of their share by loopholes favoring the rich and outright theft.