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This idea that oligarchy is descending upon America with Trump/Vance is total nonsense.

America has been an oligarchy at least since 1913 when The Fed was formed.

Then oligarchic government was accelerated during FDR's New Deal. Now you had all of these government agencies that corporations could use to "regulate" themselves and squash any budding competition.

Even today, the federal agencies are a revolving door with corporations. Oligarchy is so bad that the FDA mandated (!) vaccines that weren't vaccines. An FDA staffed by Big Pharma.

And we're supposed to believe that this all began with Trump?

Not even close.

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Stephan Rinbaum 10mo ago

Can't wait for Reich to show us where the "global democracy" is. "Democracy", like "AI", like "media", is simply a tool to keep the proles from realizing that a small minority of people are running things - an oligarchy.

Sure, Trump is the "O'Brien" in this real life version of Orwell's "1984" (i.e. Trump is seen as "on the side of the proles", but he is a lifelong member of the "inner party" and will be there when we are all rendered to Room 101), but the inner party has existed since..maybe Venice? Maybe even before that?

Reich is as much a puppet as Trump is. He is playing his role of the "good guy" to the TDSers, who have been programmed since 2016 to hate Trump even (maybe especially) when that hate means reversing all of the values they held dear during the 60s-Clinton administration. Pro war, pro surveillance, pro censorship.

Their grandparents would have hated this progeny, but sadly the surviving ones have fallen for the propaganda just as their progeny has. My 102-year old great aunt says that "if she had a gun, she would shoot Trump herself". How sad. Imagine being that old and living through so much experience only to spend your final days immersed in hatred.