Oligarchy has existed in the US since its inception. Fascist oligarchy is what has arrived.
Nah, you couldn’t even be bothered to vote against fascism.
“Has arrived”?!? Motherfucker what have you been watching for 100+ years?
Oooooo so we’re just going to act like millennials were mad for no reason all these years?
Were the oligarchs not a concern during occupy Wall Street? Or did everyone just fall for the propaganda?
I’m personally a fan of all the people who called us (and continue to call us) alarmists and who dismiss everything as overreacting
Arrived?
It’s been here for decades, the only difference is it now works in the forefront instead of behind the scenes.
really though, who could have possibly seen this inevitability?
Anyone paying attention. Leftists have been screaming about it for decades.
I’m old enough to remember Alex fucking Jones screaming about it… the “police state”, or whatever it was that he named a good five or six videos about.
Literally anyone paying attention?
Been there since the start, even before the 1920s/30s “Business Plot” there were Robber Barrons, Plantation Owners and Slavery.
I’d say it’s been oligarchy to a degree since the inception of the US. The state has always served the interest of the rich capital owners.
I think people are using “Oligarchy” to describe fascism.
Fascism is simply capitalism in decline looking for a scapegoat for its failures and contradictions.
OligarchyFascism.They’re the same picture…
Yes. But it’s a VERY big problem when we give them a different name. The typical American doesn’t really know what an oligarchy is. Many more are familiar with the concept of fascism. It obscures the issue. Call a spade a spade.
Somehow, Oligarchy has arrived in America
No, so long as the bread and circuses continue to flow.
I feel like if we were serious about “doing something” then we would have before this point. Now the vast majority of people are just pretending nothing is happening and we’ll have a free and fair election in 3.5 years and all the prices will magically go down for the first time in history, and all our rights will be restored.
USA was made by oligarchs, for oligarchs. That’s the entire purpose of a Republic.
Nah.
Also, it was already here.
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No
In before the doomers talk about how Americans are being soft and not doing anything about the problem.
In before the doomers talk about how we’re in so deep that this is the end of mankind as we know it.
Yes. We will confront it. Sometime between now and when it’s ego-fuel runs dry or fuels enough in-fighting to fracture their system to make that fight winnable.
Lemmy comment sections have been getting toxic AF lately.
Lemmy comment sections have been getting toxic AF lately.
That’s you.
