Re: The background to the oligarch’s playbook to take over America

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Don't forget, we outnumber them 9 to 1. In the good old days of feudalism, the elite (the baddest gang that managed to kill off its rivals) were able to use religion and the divine right of royalty to obscure what was going on (a mass of peasants feeding, clothing, housing and cleaning up after a tiny elite). Occasionally they had to remind the peasants that this was backed up with swords. The current royalty has a much less powerful Wizard of Oz ideology - that everything is about business and making money and amassing private wealth, and the 'Captains of Industry' (or Sultans of Silicon) have a divine right to run the economy and order people around because they are so successful at making themselves rich through the labor of their minions. It does take a kind of skill to get people to part with their hard earned cash for widescreen TVs you can watch sports and bad drama on, and telephones you can play games on, outsourced from other countries, and even more skill to make a buck off the internet, but it's mostly just working the system. It's hard to fail when you have millions to invest, but as Donald Trump has demonstrated, it is possible.

We may not be able to level the playing field through the democratic process, at least in the short term, but they can't enslave us through it either unless they can successfully brainwash the public. But the truth is much more powerful than lies, and people CAN tell the difference if they put some effort into it. Clearly humans are responsible for climate change and massive economic inequality is not the result of talent or hard work.
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Re: The background to the oligarch’s playbook to take over America

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Like Romney's company Bain Capital, the oligarchs want to drive the US into bankruptcy and slice up our assets to sell.

Nope, nope, and more nope. I won't let that happen.
A year on from President Trump’s announcement that he will withdraw the United States (US) from the Paris Climate Agreement, the global momentum to fight climate change is still strong, says Christiana Figueres, the former executive secretary of the UNFCCC.

“From an economic perspective I don’t think, frankly, that this is going to have a huge effect because decarbonisation, both from a technical and a financial perspective, is entrenched. It may not be moving forward fast enough but it is nonetheless entrenched. We now have a path that is irreversible and unstoppable,” she told chinadialogue.

In recent years China has increasingly acknowledged the benefits of taking strong action on climate, evident in its domestic policy and internationally, through partnerships with other countries.

“The US-China partnership was very important leading up to the Paris Agreement but now we have it, I don’t think it is that critical anymore to China. China will continue on its own for its own domestic benefit,” said Figueres

She said that China sees these benefits particularly in public health and the competitiveness of its economy.
https://www.chinadialogue.net/blog/1065 ... C-chief/en

China would just love to buy us for a penny on the dollar.

Keeping us on fossil fuels would be one way to move that bankruptcy along.

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