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In reply to the discussion: WAKE THE FUCK UP [View all]Phillyindy
(406 posts)...it's the 1/10th of the top 1%. People making 200k, 300k, even a few million a year are generally not the problem. It's the top 400 families who control most of the wealth...not to mention the banks, the courts, the politicians, the land, etc...
That being said, to say democrats are just as bad as Republicans as far as pandering to this oligarchy is offensively false...and a HUGE victory to the Republicans as that kind of hopeless apathy toward all politicians and government is exactly what they want.
This isn't to say Dems are perfect, they too have been corrupted by big money, but its nothing compared to Republicans. Republicans aren't even a political party, they are the representatives of the oligarchy, period, end of subject. I won't go through the list of legislation democrats have passed to help average people, or the list of things they publicly advocate for but are politically impossible at the moment - from better union laws to Wall Street regulations to funding education and infrastructure, to the entire social safety net. Hopefully you know all this...or maybe you don't, as considering Republicans furiously oppose all of these things, saying Dems and Repubs are both just surrogates of billionaires is absurd.