In the words of the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, “We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” mariannewilliamson.substack.…

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The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it | Bernie Sanders

In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of American society – 160 million Americans. This is unsustainable

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The economic royalist set themselves up as the enemies of democracy, not the other way around.
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Truth to power! Thank you, Marianne!
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"Saying no" on the Internet is pointless. The missing ingredient is for everyone to get off Twitter and operate in the real world.
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We need to add some more to the list.
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Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. Just because of who he is does not make him right. And democracy is bad.
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So logically, pretending that Trump or Putin any any way "Threatened" or "Stole" our democracy can be seen as empty, deluded hyperbole, right? Peer-reviewed social science has demonstrated that we have not had a functioning democracy for decades: scholar.princeton.edu/sites/…
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Democracy = Social Contract Oligarchy = Anti-Social Racket
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A 99.9% death tax on anything over $10 million would go a long way toward solving this.
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But that's what we have now (democracy AND great wealth in the hands of a few). Looks like Brandeis got that one wrong.
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We need you up there Marianne…keep on …take care of yourself
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