I don’t frequently click through to YouTube links, but I watched the whole video. Very informative.
Oligarchy is worse than you think
Submitted 2 days ago by BlueTea2@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S25FfbFw4M
lillardfair@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A couple interesting ideas in here.
The way we teach federalists vs anti-federalists in America always focuses on the anti-federalists desire for individual freedom and states rights. This is framed as protection of freedom and we don’t call out that it’s really a proxy for protection of individual property and wealth, even though it’s right there under our nose, particularly with how conservatives use states rights as a cudgel. They get you with the patriotic feels that all of our individual freedoms are being protected, so you ignore the wealth disparity.
Also, that the senate and supreme court are institutional oligarchy in that power is limited to a few. Particularly with how much influence the supreme court has and you think about that being only 9 people and a decision can be made by only 5. It takes away the power of the masses. Add to that the fact that they’ve capped the number of reps in the house and your voice is more and more diluted.