According to a Princeton Study, the US is no longer an actual democracy. Surprised? Don’t be. Authors of the study conclude that it’s more accurate to call America an oligarchy, where “wealthy elites wield most power.”
We’ve seen it coming — some of us have even called it, and the study makes it official. The transformation that has been underway for decades was codified when SCOTUS Inc. ruled that corporations are people, effectively and officially giving the wealthy few the right to drown out the overwhelming majority of the people.
Of course people without minds of their own won’t care. They made it possible in the first place by electing candidates who put shareholders ahead of workers, guns ahead of children. Now there’s a tell for you — the general disdain for humans as symbolized by the worship of guns. And to those who elected such candidates — the conservative base — the only right that matters is the “right” to own a gun, or a dozen.
When I was born, over 400,000 young Americans were giving their lives to save democracy and to restore it to as much of the world as possible. I hate to think that after 70 years, what these lives bought was only temporary. But that’s where we’re going. No — check that. It’s where we are.
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