You can’t be a democracy and an oligarchy at the same time. Either the country belongs to all of us or the country belongs only to a few of us. This is the deepest existential question about who we are and who we want to be.

Mar 4, 2021 · 9:25 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
We’re beyond that now. With covid the global technocrats are increasingly in charge. Trump tried to restore US sovereignty a bit but he was smeared as a racist and xenophobe.
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How can you say he was “smeared” as a racist and a xenophobe when he himself said and did things that were racist and xenophobic?
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Only in the last 100 years or so have we developed the audacity to demand that this country should belong to all of us. It certainly wasn’t founded that way.
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Actually that’s the irony of this country; that it was. But out of the 56 signers of the Dec of Ind, 41 were slaveowners. So obviously we’ve never fully embodied those principles, but all the great social justice movement were efforts to get there (and longer ago than 100 years).
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“If all men are created equal...” Marianne Williamson
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What "we" are is a nation founded on the greatest genocide in human history, as well as the North Atlantic slave trade. The people who founded this country were NOT proponents of democracy. Unregulated Capitalism invariably LEADS to oligarchy.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @JohnnyLeRose
The US has been an oligarchy for virtually all of its existence. The notion that its ever been a true democracy is just wishful thinking.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @NilsMelzer
Care to elaborate?
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When do people wake up that democrats' dont give a shit about you
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How’s old uncle Joe working out ?
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