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Frank D. Lincoln

(894 posts)
29. Exactly How?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 03:44 PM
Jan 2025
"More than a century ago, the American people stood up to the robber barons back then and busted the trusts. They didn’t 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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k and r BoRaGard Jan 2025 #1
Kick n/t defacto7 Jan 2025 #2
Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to receive a key perk on Inauguration Day LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2025 #3
"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 Jan 2025 #4
He'll have his hand BigMin28 Jan 2025 #7
They are going to sit on the platform with the cabinet??? Peacetrain Jan 2025 #5
More like... 2naSalit Jan 2025 #16
May 1 in Red Square in the old USSR DFW Jan 2025 #40
I have something in common with them! A nine-figure net worth!!! COL Mustard Jan 2025 #35
12 figure net worths Lucky Luciano Jan 2025 #41
There's a big portion of the country that is pretty far gone Johnny2X2X Jan 2025 #6
Republicans have been working for 40 years to make people stupider about how money works, BComplex Jan 2025 #30
I was sitting at a bar a few months ago Johnny2X2X Jan 2025 #31
They say teachers get paid too much, but Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2025 #39
KnR!! iluvtennis Jan 2025 #8
We need to revive TR's expression, "Malefactors of great wealth" ... few phrases better describe the "tech bro" eppur_se_muova Jan 2025 #9
They didn't listen to Eisenhower AncientOfDays Jan 2025 #10
foggy Tetrachloride Jan 2025 #11
Sure hope our progressive leaders were listening. Magoo48 Jan 2025 #12
Same thing. True Blue American Jan 2025 #13
We each need to find small ways to RESIST. Joinfortmill Jan 2025 #14
Yes, yes, yes. Magoo48 Jan 2025 #20
Proud to add the first "rec"! calimary Jan 2025 #21
The orange maniac is extremely jealous of Muskie and Co. louis-t Jan 2025 #15
Nothing changed under his tenure ThePartyThatListens Jan 2025 #17
Then why didn't he and the other corporate Dems moonbeam23 Jan 2025 #18
Yeah, get back to us with the "namby-bamby," a year from now. Paladin Jan 2025 #19
The bashers are out in full-force today. Politicub Jan 2025 #27
Bezos, Musk and Zuck are forever sullied by their obsequiousness to the Orange Asshole SpankMe Jan 2025 #22
The Biden Admin didn't see any trouble with giving Musk DoD contracts erodriguez Jan 2025 #23
So many contracts Falcon101 Jan 2025 #25
Biden's speech yesterday was tearful for me. riversedge Jan 2025 #24
The president is a skillful leader and knows the power of the bully pulpit Politicub Jan 2025 #26
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 Jan 2025 #28
Exactly How? Frank D. Lincoln Jan 2025 #29
Making the wealthy play by the rules is what Limbaugh used to call "punishing success" -- because... Beartracks Jan 2025 #32
Nice words, but there wasn't one single act to rein in these oligarchs Bluetus Jan 2025 #33
Elon Musk will have office space at the White House complex LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2025 #34
this is what i have been saying all along. pay your fair share and that goes to the wealthy corperations too also. AllaN01Bear Jan 2025 #36
k&r n/t markie Jan 2025 #37
Shades of Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex warning Dem4life1970 Jan 2025 #38
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