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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 06:43 PM Dec 2016

As Trump Builds His Oligarchy, America Goes to Sleep

http://prospect.org/article/trump-builds-his-oligarchy-america-goes-sleep

As Trump Builds His Oligarchy, America Goes to Sleep

Adele M. Stan

December 21, 2016

The nation is weary from a hellish campaign and fear of its outcome. But if there was ever a time to wake up, it’s now.


As the nation lay sleeping, evidence piled up of an alliance between a hostile foreign power and an incoming Republican administration that owed much of its electoral good fortune to the apparent intervention of said hostile power. And still the nation slept.

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In fairness to the American people, it is difficult to take in all the harm being inflicted on the republic at this moment in history, and the consequences are terrifying to contemplate. The stage has been set for a massive accrual of profits to private capitalists—both here and abroad—through the leveraging and misappropriation of the nation’s assets and resources, be they highway funds or the fossil fuels that sit beneath the lands and oceans, or the lands over which such fuel must travel to reach a market. And even those two examples represent but a glimpse of the massive grift that is to come.

As horrendous as is the white nationalist rhetoric that helped Trump enough of a constituency to tilt the electoral map in his favor—even as the emails of highly placed Democrats, apparently hacked by Russia and dumped into the media stream via WikiLeaks put the damper on Democratic turnout—the hate-peddling is the sideshow designed to distract the populace from the real act, which is the diversion of the nation’s assets in the service of financial flows between the private capitalists of the United States and the oligarchs of the world—especially those of Russia.

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As for Trump himself, as the president-elect plants his own oligarchy, he continues to resist calls to divest himself of his global business interests while serving as the nation’s president. Today comes word that rather than place his holdings in what is traditionally known as a “blind trust,” Trump is contemplating a “half-blind trust,” one that would leave his family in charge of the store.

The nation rustles lightly, its weariness from a hellish campaign and fear over its outcome obscuring its view with heavy eyelids.

In the land of unseeing, the half-blind man is king.

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As Trump Builds His Oligarchy, America Goes to Sleep (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2016 OP
I don't think it's a matter of sleeping so much as just waiting in shock, The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2016 #1
That's where I'm at. babylonsister Dec 2016 #5
Everyone on DU is wide awake, thankyou! lunatica Dec 2016 #2
Not meant for DUers, I'm thinking, and was hoping babylonsister Dec 2016 #4
More like the Corporate Media is still asleep. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #3
the "oligarchy" reference is spot on; Russia is a mafia nation, which explains why Trump loves TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #6

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,272 posts)
1. I don't think it's a matter of sleeping so much as just waiting in shock,
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 06:51 PM
Dec 2016

worrying about what might happen next.

babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
5. That's where I'm at.
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 07:04 PM
Dec 2016

Every day I get home from work, turn on the news, and wonder to myself how much he's messed up today.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. More like the Corporate Media is still asleep.
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 06:55 PM
Dec 2016

The people who care are wide awake,reading and watching and ready . What is lacking is the picking up of the baton by what is left of our Democratic Party Leadership and using it as a club to awaken this Nation as to what has happened.

 

TheFrenchRazor

(2,116 posts)
6. the "oligarchy" reference is spot on; Russia is a mafia nation, which explains why Trump loves
Thu Dec 22, 2016, 07:14 PM
Dec 2016

it so much, and wants Putin to help him do the same for america.

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