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Frank D. Lincoln

(736 posts)
29. Exactly How?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 02:44 PM
17 hrs ago
"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 22 hrs ago #1
Kick n/t defacto7 22 hrs ago #2
Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg to receive a key perk on Inauguration Day LetMyPeopleVote 22 hrs ago #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 22 hrs ago #4
He'll have his hand BigMin28 22 hrs ago #7
They are going to sit on the platform with the cabinet??? Peacetrain 22 hrs ago #5
More like... 2naSalit 20 hrs ago #16
May 1 in Red Square in the old USSR DFW 8 min ago #40
I have something in common with them! A nine-figure net worth!!! COL Mustard 14 hrs ago #35
12 figure net worths Lucky Luciano 6 min ago #41
There's a big portion of the country that is pretty far gone Johnny2X2X 22 hrs ago #6
Republicans have been working for 40 years to make people stupider about how money works, BComplex 17 hrs ago #30
I was sitting at a bar a few months ago Johnny2X2X 17 hrs ago #31
They say teachers get paid too much, but Dark n Stormy Knight 1 hr ago #39
KnR!! iluvtennis 22 hrs ago #8
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
They didn't listen to Eisenhower AncientOfDays 21 hrs ago #10
foggy Tetrachloride 21 hrs ago #11
Sure hope our progressive leaders were listening. Magoo48 21 hrs ago #12
Same thing. True Blue American 20 hrs ago #13
We each need to find small ways to RESIST. Joinfortmill 20 hrs ago #14
Yes, yes, yes. Magoo48 19 hrs ago #20
Proud to add the first "rec"! calimary 19 hrs ago #21
The orange maniac is extremely jealous of Muskie and Co. louis-t 20 hrs ago #15
Nothing changed under his tenure ThePartyThatListens 20 hrs ago #17
Then why didn't he and the other corporate Dems moonbeam23 20 hrs ago #18
Yeah, get back to us with the "namby-bamby," a year from now. Paladin 20 hrs ago #19
The bashers are out in full-force today. Politicub 18 hrs ago #27
Bezos, Musk and Zuck are forever sullied by their obsequiousness to the Orange Asshole SpankMe 19 hrs ago #22
The Biden Admin didn't see any trouble with giving Musk DoD contracts erodriguez 18 hrs ago #23
So many contracts Falcon101 18 hrs ago #25
Biden's speech yesterday was tearful for me. riversedge 18 hrs ago #24
The president is a skillful leader and knows the power of the bully pulpit Politicub 18 hrs ago #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 18 hrs ago #28
Exactly How? Frank D. Lincoln 17 hrs ago #29
Making the wealthy play by the rules is what Limbaugh used to call "punishing success" -- because... Beartracks 15 hrs ago #32
Nice words, but there wasn't one single act to rein in these oligarchs Bluetus 15 hrs ago #33
Elon Musk will have office space at the White House complex LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #34
this is what i have been saying all along. pay your fair share and that goes to the wealthy corperations too also. AllaN01Bear 13 hrs ago #36
k&r n/t markie 12 hrs ago #37
Shades of Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex warning Dem4life1970 10 hrs ago #38
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