I now think many of the Republican Oligarchs would love the US to turn into something like Russia

[Quixote1818]

I never would have seen that coming but what has happened in the past few months is pretty eye opening. Putin is frighteningly clever. That is why Russia is a much bigger threat to us than ISIS. It's really frightening and sooner or later the power the 1% is compiling is going to need to be broken up or our freedoms could evaporate rapidly. Hopefully the FBI can put some folks in jail and discourage what is starting to happen. Trump needs to be impeached to send a message regardless of it possibly hurting us in the midterms.

On Edit: France and Germany see the threat and are taking it as serious as a heart attack. They are sending Putin a message that Europe will stand up to his fucking ass alone if they need to! They are true heroes here.

[RKP5637]

2. And why so many in the GOP are so quiet IMO. n/t

[Initech]

9. Yup! They're all in on it!

[mn9driver]

3. This has become quite obvious.

An authoritarian kleptocracy cannot exist for long in a place where free and fair elections are held. The giant fortunes in this country are looking for ways to perpetuate themselves.

They are close to succeeding.

[pdxflyboy]

4. You are correct.

I believe the Drump administration's goal is to make this happen.

[TheFrenchRazor]

5. absolutely; russia is a mafia nation. repugs would like nothing better than to do the same thing her

here.

[hedda_foil]

6. I've been thinking about this too. U.S. oligarchs working in concert with Putin.

The Kochs and their fellow billionaires have seized control of this country and are working with Putin and his gang of Russian oligarchs to permanently overturn our system of government and fuck the American hoi polloi who think they're entitled to live a good life b y right of citizenship.

[RKP5637]

10. They know no borders. Their wealth transcends countries and borders, and citizens of respective

countries. Many citizens are just in the way. Many would like to eliminate them. So many Americans are so damn naive as to the worldview of what is going on, and the damn fools embrace the likes of Trump and the GOP.

[hedda_foil]

16. Indeed. And each of them wants it all, but Putin can run circles around them all.

The world order is shifting on its axis as the age of Pax Americana stumbles to its end, led by a family of traitorous fools.

[L. Coyote]

7. They want to break up the USA and sell off everything to the lowest Plutocrat bidder.

And if that means using the Russian mob as partners, why not? They already partner in all kinds of deals, like gas and oil corporations.

[First Speaker]

8. The Republican Party is a conspiracy of treason...

...and I see no need whatever to pull our punches when we say it. They are in the process of speedily abandoning any pretense of believing in liberal democracy. We are in the worst crisis since 1861, and the odds, to be blunt, seem to be in their favor. "Politics as usual", looking towards 2018 or 2020...these aren't going to make any difference. What will make a difference...well, I'd rather not say explicitly. Only that I think it's highly unlikely. The sort of system the GOP wants lasted for 40 years in Spain, and 15 in Chile. It might last forever here in the US.

[RKP5637]

12. The GOP is no longer a political party, but a force that must be dealt with. The GOP has

demonstrated their agenda over and over again. Far too many Americans think today's GOP is Eisenhower's GOP.

[blueinredohio]

11. Why do you think they keep calling for a

constitutional convention? Already have half the state's to change the constitution. Be ready to let rich religious republicans rule.

[RKP5637]

13. Far too many Americans are too damn stupid to get what's going on and live in a la la land of

Idiocracy enabling the GOP to remake this country into a diastopic society.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. The oligarchs have it great in America by allowing the masses to have their bourgeoisie freedoms.

They are insane to upset the status quo.

[sharedvalues]

15. Yes obviously. GOP donors love money and corruption like Russian oligarchs