How #America became a #trump lead #Oligarchic #Fascist #Regime ‼️
#oligarchic
Definition of #Authoritarianism (via #Wikipedia) :
"Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political #StatusQuo, and reductions in #democracy, #SeparationOfPowers, civil liberties, and the rule of law. #Authoritarian regimes may be either #autocratic or #oligarchic and may be based upon the rule of a party, the military, or the concentration of power in a single person."
#Ukrainian #farmers are often vilified as #oligarchic agri-barons who pose a threat to the #EU. The real picture is far more complex.
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-farm-giants-kyiv-volodymyr-zelenskyy/
In the year 2174, the #US will be an #autocracy with #oligarchic and #theocratic elements and will reign over most of what was Canada. #Technology will have reverted to a 19th Century level. Here’s my review of the 2009 #sciencefiction #novel that outlines this dark vision doncurren.blogspot.com?m=1
Curren(t) Thinking
#Capitalism and the #oligarchic #overlords in a nutshell
#Billionaires and #gigacorps be like y'all, 'I #drink your #milkshake!' #yt
#Check out : #Israel is a #democracy, perhaps in the way that all our so-called democracies evolve, more #authoritarian, more #oppressive, more #oligarchic, more #differential and #unequal - anyway #Israel is an #occidental #invention
« The next morning I left the festival and made my way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I had to wait an extra hour or so for a taxi with the right color license plate, yellow, and so be allowed to cross through a checkpoint in Israel’s wall and onto the road to Jerusalem on the other side. I made small talk with my driver, then retreated back into my thoughts of the journey so far. It was my sixth day in Palestine, but I felt like I had been here for months. The days were filled with tours, the nights with talks—even the meals felt like seminars. Some of this is just being abroad somewhere far from home. But most of it was the specificity of this place—how much it seemed to embody the West and its contradictions, its claims of democracy, its foundations in exploitation. Of all the worlds I have ever explored, I don’t think any shone so bright, so intense, so immediately as Palestine.
But when the light cleared I had new eyes, and I could see my own words in new ways—and the words from which they were derived—the stories, columns, speeches, and talks presented by “willing intellectuals.” So much seemed obvious. I now noted a symmetry in the bromides—that those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state. Riding in that taxi toward Jerusalem, the truth of this struck me as undeniable. I’d spent most of my time in the Occupied Territories, a world of minority rule. But even in the state proper, caste reigned. Palestinians living in Israel have shorter lives, are poorer, and live in more violent neighborhoods. Certain neighborhoods in Israel are allowed to discriminate legally against Palestinian citizens by setting “admission committees.” The committees, operating in 41 percent of all Israeli localities, are free to bar anyone lacking “social suitability” or “compatibility with the social and cultural fabric.” Openly racist appeals are the norm, as when Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2015 that “the right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone. »
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
‘#Revolution With Joy’: #Bernie and #AOC Draw Massive Crowd in Los Angeles
Sanders appeared to draw his largest crowd ever as he warned supporters that “we are living today in an #oligarchic form of society”
by Naomi LaChance, April 12, 2025
"Sanders noted that Musk had posted a video to X on Friday showing that Sanders has been warning that America is becoming an oligarchy for decades. 'Well, Elon, you’re damn right, that’s what I’ve been talking about,' Sanders said.
" 'The difference is I’m no longer talking about how we’re moving to oligarchy. I’m talking about how we are living today in an oligarchic form of society. Three months ago, when Trump was inaugurated, standing right behind him during his inauguration, were the three wealthiest people in this country, Mr. #Musk, Mr. [Jeff] #Bezos and Mr. [Mark] #Zuckerberg. And right behind them, were 13 other #billionaires who Trump had nominated to head up major federal agencies. And that, brothers and sisters, is what #oligarchy is all about.' "
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/V0grp
Thousands in #Midwestern #GOP Districts Attend #Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight #Oligarchy
"It's like there's only one person who is actually able to sidestep the demoralization and frustration," said one observer.
Julia Conley, Feb 22, 2025
"After addressing more than 3,400 #Nebraska residents in Omaha Friday evening, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday made his second stop on his National Tour to Fight Oligarchy—telling Iowa City, #Iowa residents that '#Trumpism will not be defeated by politicians inside the #DCBeltway.'
"'For better or worse, that is not going to happen,' said the Vermont Independent senator, whose broadly popular policy proposals have long been dismissed by Democratic leaders as unrealistic and radical while President Donald Trump has increasingly captured the attention of the #WorkingClass Americans who would benefit most from Sanders' ideas.
"'It will only be defeated by millions of Americans in Iowa, in #Vermont, in Nebraska, in every state in this country, who come together in a strong #grassroots movement and say no to oligarchy, no to #authoritarianism, no to #kleptocracy, no to massive cuts to programs that #LowIncome and working Americans desperately need, no to huge #TaxBreaks for the #wealthiest people in this country,' said Sanders.
"The senator announced his tour earlier this month as #ElonMusk, the head of the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency ( #DOGE) who poured $277 million on the president's campaign, swept through numerous agencies, with DOGE staffers setting up illegal servers, seizing control of data, shutting federal employees out of offices, and working to shut down operations across the government.
"Since Trump took office for his second term just over a month ago, roughly 30,000 federal employees have been fired or laid off—part of Musk's push to cut $2 trillion in federal spending in order to fill the $4.6 trillion hole that Trump's extension of the 2017 tax cuts would blow in the deficit.
"#Republican lawmakers have also pushed to include cuts to #Medicaid, and Trump this week signaled he would back #Medicare cuts after repeatedly insisting he would not slash the popular healthcare program used by more than 65 million Americans, in order to save money while handing out tax cuts to the same #corporations and #ultrawealthy households that benefited from the 2017 tax law.
"'Today in America we are rapidly moving toward an #oligarchic form of society where a handful of #multibillionaires not only have extraordinary wealth, but unprecedented economic, media, and political power,' said Sanders in Iowa City, which like Omaha is represented by a Republican U.S. House member who narrowly won reelection last November and has faced pressure to reject the GOP budget plan. 'Brothers and sisters, that is not the democracy that men and women fought and died to defend.'"
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-donald-trump
#Oligarchy #OligarchyTour #StillSanders #BernieSanders #USPol #CorporateInterests #Corporatocracy #CorporateColonialism
Raawwrrrr! #BernieSanders, 83, started the video by saying he's not typically "in the habit of thanking #ElonMusk."
"'But I must confess that he's done an exceptional job of demonstrating a point that a few of us have been making for years, and that is the reality that we live in an #oligarchic society in which #billionaires dominate not only our politics and the information we consume from media but our government and economic lives as well,' Sanders said."
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-tour-oligarchy-2030615#slideshow/2587724
#Sanders2028 #SandersForSenate2030 #StillSanders #Oligarchy
How The #US Became So #Dysfunctional, #Oligarchic, And #Corrupt – #OpEd
#DomesticPolitics in the #US is, superficially, dominated by incessant #public #fights between different #factions of the two ostensibly rival #PoliticalParties, thanks to the #collaboration of #establishment #media and many #socialnetworks.
The #MAGAs
(the stupid horde who voted without knowing what they were voting for)
have reached the end of their race
MAGAs existed as long as they served to bring the #oligarchic #Autarchy to power
now they are NO longer of 'use'.
#Trump has his 'throne' and will spend most of his time playing golf and making PR appearances
the Nation will be led by 'others'
'others' who like #Trump have THEIR interests at heart and NOT those of the Nation
... much less those of the MAGAs.
#LuigiMangione is someone who has done what many refuse or fear, challenging the #oligarchic class.
@artemis To be fair to Elon the #oligarch, such #oligarchic regimes look really good from the perspective of the oppressors.
How #JackLondon Foresaw the #AntiDemocratic #Future With #TheIronHeel.
#KenMcGoogan on the #Dangers of #Oligarchic #Totalitarian #Rule in #Fiction and in #RealLife
In one of the most prescient dystopian works ever written, the #narrator describes how the #party in #government, having lost an #election, simply declined to leave office.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TheArts #Books #Reading #Representation #Culture
https://lithub.com/how-jack-london-foresaw-the-anti-democratic-future-with-the-iron-heel/
@janisf@mstdn.social @gwynnion Now that I have heard #KamalaHarris at the DNC, it seems clear we are not about to see any fundamental changes to the #Oligarchic control and US support for war and genocide.
I always feel embarrassed for my flights of irrational hope.
@gwynnion So hot I decided to medicate (intoxicate, either is well within acceptable human behavior). So imagination has upper hand. Within the current system the first reaction of inconvenienced #Oligarchic rulers seems always to involve death inflicted on the #WorkingClaas. But sufficient numbers can prevail. Roll of the dice.
@gwynnion The #DemocraticParty meanwhile mounts a half-hearted opposition based on their own religious reverence for an #Oligarchic #Capitalism. They must rely on votes based solely on anti-MAGA sentiment to win. They will not be able to generate real enthusiasm, so the election remains a crapshoot.
Unfortunately I’m spending time now on #Xitter #birdsite as it’s the only place to get full coverage of the impending #Madagascar #elections. I hadn’t believed how #nazi the platform had become til i went back. Systemic #oligarchic #fossilfuel #whitesupremacy. I was BOMBARDED by #advertising on #environmentalist #chrispackham & how he was supposedly a “them”, amassing millions against the “us” small people. Site leads to fake BBC article, all linked to… #crypto products. #Musk #disinformation
...to manifest, and be noticed.
The #fragmentation and #polarization driven by #socialmedia have been noticed, and much commented on.
Dire as those are - and they are dire! - I do wonder about longer term side effects - esp. with the other huge drivers of social change (#climatechange, #oligarchic parasitism of economies, falling birth rates in many powerful countries) acting as #accelerants./End
@WeShall OFC it is!
#FACT: It's a #oligarchic #cleptogracy ruled by #christofacists...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
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