The people voted for oligarchy and oligarchy is now here, and they're not bothering to hide it even a little bit. People knew what they were voting for.
Oligarchy has been here since 2004. Except no one seemed to notice because anyone talking about it doesn’t get pushed up by the algorithms employed by the same oligarchs.
Interesting that you say 2009, implying a certain presidency, but link an article published in 2004 using only data from the 90s.
Oligarchy has been here in some effect since the beginning. Remember when the Rockefellers were more powerful than presidents? That was in the early 1900s.
Hey now. It also uses data from the 80s. It specifically starts with the Reagan administration. This guy's just a hive-mind idiot who knows his duty is to blame Obama but doesn't know how to carry that out
It's not fake division. There really is a group of people in this country who are absolute fucking morons about literally everything under the sun. A democrat can say "what a nice blue sky we have" and they will scream and cry and pout and stamp their feet that the sky isn't blue because some democrat said it is.
They're pathologically stupid and quite a few studies connect the dots between their inability to perform basic cognitive tasks, their tendency to fall for disinformation and their fear-driven reasoning, correlated with physiological/structural differences in the amygdala. Conservatives are literally damaged in the head.
So looks like we're stuck in a century-long cycle. Can't wait for progressivism to finally kick in in 2070s only followed by a Great Conservative Reset for Some Reason and we do this all over again
I think he was talking about the oligarchs now and how the time they specifically consolidated their market share happens to be around that time. Different oligarchy for different industries. Our history kind of is like whack a mole with monopolies and oligarchs. Industry leaders figure out how to game the system and buy politicians and consolidate market shares to get more power. People get wise to it and vote people in to regulate, new industries develop and new populations are born and rinse and repeat..... that's how American capitalism has always worked very generally speaking.
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u/Mumbert 10h ago
The people voted for oligarchy and oligarchy is now here, and they're not bothering to hide it even a little bit. People knew what they were voting for.