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-0--1-<a href="https://mastodon.social/@WittyDragon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@WittyDragon</a> As wealth becomes more concentrated, as it has been since about 1970, government no longer can maintain control through taxation. Especially since one party, the Republicans and GOP and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>, of government is owned and operated by wealthy oligarchs. There is no bound for the wealthy. The US is no longer a Democracy. It is a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Plutocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plutocratic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Oligarchy</a> with the veneer of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democracy</a>.

DoomsdaysCWAmericans Didn’t Vote for What Donald Trump Is About to Give ThemFor 40 years, Republicans have mixed populist rhetoric with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocratic</a> policies. Maybe this time, Americans will finally get wise to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/con" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#con</a> by Jay Michaelson, November 11, 2024"I don’t think any Democrat could’ve won this election. Maybe, if there were a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BernieSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BernieSanders</a>-like outsider figure, different enough from Joe Biden and Harris to not seem like a continuation of them, and possessed of Trump-like abilities to tune into the grievances and alienation of working-class people, that person could have won. (Biden himself, before his cognitive decline, had those qualities; he was known as Scranton Joe, after all.) But even then, that candidate would have to buck a global trend. I doubt anyone could do that." Read more: <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-americans-vote-plutocrats-taxes-1235161296/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-americans-vote-plutocrats-taxes-1235161296/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/jlT43" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/jlT43</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DonTheFascistCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonTheFascistCon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DonTheCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonTheCon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StillSanders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StillSanders</a>

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MikeJohnson</a>'s "<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/biblical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biblical</a>” <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a>: Using <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChristianNationalism</a> to "enhance <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/plutocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plutocratic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Author</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/KatherineStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KatherineStewart</a> on how <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MikeJohnson</a> ended up with so much <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://www.salon.com/2023/11/13/mike-johnsons-biblical-economics-using-christian-nationalism-to-enhance-plutocratic-wealth/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.salon.com/2023/11/13/mike-johnsons-biblical-economics-using-christian-nationalism-to-enhance-plutocratic-wealth/</a>

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