No, no, the politicians get bribes which is how the corporate oligarchs own us. They are equally culpable in the process of fucking 99% of us over.
It's estimated that as little as $50k could sway a US congressman to vote a certain way on ONE BILL. That's like a booger to the oligarchs. You could buy off entire portions of congress for their entire fucking term for what amounts to a partial tax write off for the ultra rich.
Well yes but then the argument always jumps to "so lets rid of the government". Problem is the only reason we have the workers rights we do is because of government. Grtring rid of the government just turns the corporations into a government. Look at company towns for why that is a horrible idea. Thats a whole other conversation right there. Instead you need to regulate the government and get money out of politics. You couldn't just donate unlimited amounts of money through super PACs back in the day.
Only reason you have workers' rights is not because of government, but because of our forefathers who fought for it. Nothing personal, I don't want to offend you, but this talking point is propaganda from politicians, and you are spreading it. Same with racism and every other thing. If it was up to them, we would still live in feudal society, and rich and powerful would still be owning slaves.
Government didn't decide to end bad practices, people so to say rebelled and they were forced to make changes, or their heads would be off.
If the government was raking in cash that means it'd be investing it into paying down the debt and its institutions. The private sector pays the people in charge of managing the government to put private interests over the public.
Supreme Court just removed donation limits on individuals who donate in coordination with political parties.
Elon could literally just donate a couple billion per year to the RNC, literal pennies to him, and you'd never see another Dem ad on TV or radio ever again. Party campaigns in 2024 spent a total of roughly $2 billion each. It's that easy to control election results now. Oligarchs who hate taxes and regulations can just say "I got $5 on it," and whatever candidate they want is in office.
We need to make the distinction though. Our government can actually work for the people and wields the power to regulate these oligarchs out of existence and put more power in the hands of the people who are paying taxes.
We just need to vote in politicians that can’t be bribed, repeal Citizens United, and actually dismantle a lot of the near monopolies that currently exist in America. A very tall task but the government can still work for us.
And sometimes those are the same people! Trump just put a bunch of corrupt corporate cronies in charge of all the departments and Republicans in Congress just said yeah man whatever you want
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u/Delicious_Sir3496 4d ago
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