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Billionaire Capitalists Like Musk and Thiel Want to Kill Democracy

Billionaire Capitalists Like Musk and Thiel Want to Kill Democracy | Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/billionaire-capitalists-kill-democracy

U.S. oligarchs are backing Donald Trump and the neofascists surrounding him in a bid to roll back the clock to the Gilded Age.

Billionaire Capitalists Like Musk and Thiel Want to Kill Democracy | Common Dreams

U.S. oligarchs are backing Donald Trump and the neofascists surrounding him in a bid to roll back the clock to the Gilded Age.

17 comments

ChihuahuaOfDoom

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That sounds about right.

TokenBoomer

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In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.

-Joseph Stalin

phoenixz

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Yeah, I'm not so sure if he's the right person to quote here has he has well over 6 million people killed...

maynarkh

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Takes one to know one I guess

formergijoe

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That's just a statistic though, not a tragedy /s

Maalus

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This right here is why lemmy will never take off as a platform.

Hobbes_Dent

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Gilded age. What a bunch of fucking idiots.

Oligarchs think team fascism is doing the cucking to get in power, will soon be the cucks before being nationalized or shot.

It’s not like there’s no example out there. Stupids.

GoofSchmoofer

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It's not too much of a reach to see a 2nd trump presidency promoting new laws that look progressive on the surface - higher tax rate on billionaires with the intention of putting himself on the top of the "richest men in America" list. Just takes a a little carve out in the law that presidents (for life) don't have to pay this new massive tax.

Allonzee

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Lol Jack Kemp and the Reagan Revolution beat them to that by half a century.

And Citizens United removed the most transparent of fig leaves from that reality.

Crikeste

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The democracy where I get the choices:

Capitalist who says the N word

Capitalist who used to say the N word

ccunning

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Of course they do. We all get the same number of votes but they get a disproportionate number of dollars.

TokenBoomer

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I’m gonna write that one down.

Zehzin

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Oligarchs want to do oligarch shit, surprising no one

EvilEyedPanda

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Zehzin

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Robert, have I ever shown you this cool golf club I found?

Dasus

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Who's surprised about this?

dharwin

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Mush has a very punchable face.

Techpriest2

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I consider myself very pro democracy and would return the favor in a heartbeat.

Techpriest2

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Because the last Gilded Age went so well? RTFM (AKA History Books): "The Panic of 1893 was a depression set off by the failure of two of the largest employers in the country: The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and the National Cordage Company. The stock market plummeted as businesses that had borrowed heavily to invest in railroads went bankrupt. The value of crops in the American South and West fell. Unemployment rose as high as 19 percent.

The crash threw the power of the wealthy—and the powerlessness of labor—into stark relief. “The Panic of 1893 showed that this notion of a laissez-faire, unregulated economy was not working. It never worked for the poor, but it took the panic for the idea to hit the middle class, who had the most to lose,” says Nancy Unger, Professor of History at Santa Clara University and president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era."