This time, though, we’re not just talking about Carnegies and Rockefellers. In the 2020s the first estate has four times the wealth that it did during the gilded age.
It’s not just enough to buy elections and control government, it’s enough to buy all the elections internationally, and control all the governments.
And we’re already seeing how in the rest of the industrialized world how far right movements are gaining traction in nations that have been weakened by decades of neoliberal policies (e.g. policies that favor private corporate interests and disfavor the public).
That is to say, watch carefully what happens here in the States, because wherever you are, they’re trying the same thing, and have high tech and lots of money.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
In my opinion this is applicable to virtually any political discourse on lemmy though. Overwhelmingly progressive, left leaning, politically informed.
I myself am often annoyed with the literal echo chamber effect of people dropping facts and entire paragraphs in the comments like there is an audience to be convinced, when in fact everyone already knows and has read and heard the argument dozens of times.
At the same time i don’t want to engage with right wingers either, so political monoculture it is.