Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them - eviltoast
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      1 month ago

      What you fail to realize is accruement of capital of many opposing businesses isn’t the enemy at this juncture.

      The unchecked power of an elected fascist dismantling democracy is.

      There is no all consuming hivemind that connects to people more as their wealth increases, they’re all competing against one another.

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          1 month ago

          The way I see it is they’ve got more incentive as rational actors to promote security and equality. What is interfering with that is irrational primal instincts that make some of them want to hoard wealth and attack those who are physically or culturally different from them.

          More billionaires supported a candidate who promised to tax their unrealized gains than they sided with Trump. Trumps billionaires just happened to capture enough social media to tilt things his way.