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In reply to the discussion: This is what floored me yesterday in Pres. Bidens speech.. [View all]Frank D. Lincoln
(736 posts)29. Exactly How?
"More than a century ago, the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts. They didnt punish the wealthy. They just made the wealthy play by the rules everybody else had."
How exactly would we go about doing something like that today?
Voting? Future elections might be fixed so that we can't get out of this situation like that anymore. (But we won't know for sure until 2026.)
Boycotting? How would we go about organizing a country this large and so divided and likely lorded over by a fascist dictator?
Protesting? If Trump has his way, that'll be quelled by the U.S. military and possibly violently.
It looks like the robber barons of today can't be defeated but will only grow more rich and powerful as the American people become poorer and less powerful.
The kick in the head is that the American people have enabled this at the ballot box by voting for Trump combined with a great many people who voted for Biden in 2020 not voting at all in 2024.
The American people are the best friend the oligarchs ever had.
The American people collectively chose to be fleeced and disempowered by the oligarchs.
But maybe there's a way for us to get out of this that I can't foresee.
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"prominent place at Inauguration"? Muck won't have hand on bible, he'll have it inside, rewriting it for X. . . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
22 hrs ago
#4
Republicans have been working for 40 years to make people stupider about how money works,
BComplex
17 hrs ago
#30
We need to revive TR's expression, "Malefactors of great wealth" ... few phrases better describe the "tech bro"
eppur_se_muova
22 hrs ago
#9
Bezos, Musk and Zuck are forever sullied by their obsequiousness to the Orange Asshole
SpankMe
19 hrs ago
#22
How much they hate us, that's what shocks me. They are willling to suffer themselves to watch us lose and be miserable.
Peregrine Took
18 hrs ago
#28
Making the wealthy play by the rules is what Limbaugh used to call "punishing success" -- because...
Beartracks
15 hrs ago
#32