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OldYallow

(90 posts) Mon Jan 9, 2017, 04:14 AM Jan 2017

I Just Heard America Wasn't An Oligarchy [View all]

Wow.

So what people want matters more to politicians than what the people who own the media, and have 50 trillion in wealth want.

Boy howdy.

A head scratcher.

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I Just Heard America Wasn't An Oligarchy [View all] OldYallow Jan 2017 OP

whoever told you America wasn't an oligarchy, doesn't know what the word means. putitinD Jan 2017 #1

Members of the oligarchy and their paid and unpaid flacks Warpy Jan 2017 #2

Ben Franklin, printer, was the media baron of his day FarCenter Jan 2017 #3