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CentralMass

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41. What he is saying is that the U.S. has become an Oligarchy.

Sun Feb 16, 2020, 06:51 PM

Feb 2020

https://www.businessinsider.com/major-study-finds-that-the-us-is-an-oligarchy-2014-4
Major Study Finds The US Is An Oligarchy
"Researchers concluded that U.S. government policies rarely align with the preferences of the majority of Americans, but do favour special interests and lobbying organizations: "When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it."

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I'm running against some folks who are billionaires. [View all] Uncle Joe Feb 2020 OP

And here is Bernie, a mere lowly millionaire! tritsofme Feb 2020 #1

One million dollars is not enough to finance a primary campaign. totodeinhere Feb 2020 #2

+ the obvious Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #3

Whose supporters constantly remind everyone about how much money he raises. HarlanPepper Feb 2020 #5

In comparison Sanders net worth is $2 million and Bloomberg's is $61.7 billion. CentralMass Feb 2020 #40

Even though he only has a 'mere' $2 million, he still hides some of his financial situation. keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #42

HYPOCRISY wrapped up in a pipe dream. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #59

Post removed Post removed Feb 2020 #4

Same ole smears about democrats. boston bean Feb 2020 #6

Are the Republicans corrupted or corruptible by big money? Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #9

Are democrats corrupt? Yes or No. you answer the question. boston bean Feb 2020 #10

Are Democrats human? Yes or No. you answer the question. Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #11

If you are gonna go in circles. You can do so yourself. boston bean Feb 2020 #35

Is accepting big donations and hiding the donors' identity corrupt? Yes or No. ehrnst Feb 2020 #57

Yep Zolorp Feb 2020 #16

Yep. If only he focused just a bit on Tramp sometimes, he'd have some cred. Amimnoch Feb 2020 #22

What he is saying is that the U.S. has become an Oligarchy. CentralMass Feb 2020 #41

Dems are the only ones standing between this country going into the abyss - nobody should be UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #60

BS always bitched about millionaires until he became one. democratisphere Feb 2020 #7

Yep. Skidmore Feb 2020 #26

Funny how millionaires are not evil anymore! redstateblues Feb 2020 #28

Well ... if you could take ALL their money it might work ... mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #8

class warfare evertonfc Feb 2020 #12

A millionaire is running against a billionaire. RandySF Feb 2020 #13

A millionaire financed and given voice by more average Americans than any other Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #14

And how many of his books did the campaign buy? RandySF Feb 2020 #20

Bernie's own book of the month club Skidmore Feb 2020 #29

Selling one's wares on Amazon really can bring in the $$$... ehrnst Feb 2020 #58

for a little context. .. if dollars were seconds, a million bucks would be 11days. a billion Kurt V. Feb 2020 #36

That makes Bernie 22 days and Bloomberg 1,800 years. Or so. nt PETRUS Feb 2020 #44

And yet, nobody knows how many billionaires fund his Super PAC. Zolorp Feb 2020 #15

That's Super PACs - plural. George II Feb 2020 #18

Using your logic, no doubt there must be a bunch of billionaires just chomping at the bit Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #19

Hypocrisy is as hypocrisy does Zolorp Feb 2020 #21

Uh, both of the billionaires currently running for our nomination have proposed raising their taxes. W_HAMILTON Feb 2020 #34

Oh geeze, poor downtrodden multimillionaire. Did he say he's running against DEMOCRATS? George II Feb 2020 #17

Or worse, some of his funding may be coming from actual full on Republicans. Amimnoch Feb 2020 #23

This message was self-deleted by its author Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #27

"I'm running against some folks who are Democrats" brooklynite Feb 2020 #24

Hmm.. so "billionaire" support or "Republican" Support. Amimnoch Feb 2020 #25

Didn't you say you would vote for Trump over Bernie? Uncle Joe Feb 2020 #30

It's beyond me how Bernie and his supporters don't get it. beastie boy Feb 2020 #31

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Poor, poor Burnie. Still In Wisconsin Feb 2020 #32

I'd prefer you take their billionaire money and just not sell out... W_HAMILTON Feb 2020 #33

Yeah. I don't know where the notion that if you take money from some people, you Blue_true Feb 2020 #37

Sanders and his people -- that's where that notion came from. W_HAMILTON Feb 2020 #38

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2020 #48

"Use your head man.." ehrnst Feb 2020 #49

Anybody that studies these things will say big numbers are hard to comprehend. for anybody. Kurt V. Feb 2020 #39

You can't win an election without money gollygee Feb 2020 #43

Sanders returns the donations from billionaires. denem Feb 2020 #45

There are some questions... ehrnst Feb 2020 #50

I trust Bloomberg money more than Sanders supporters money. radius777 Feb 2020 #46

How about big donors whose identities are hidden? ehrnst Feb 2020 #51

TELL 'EM UNCLE JOE!! GREAT POST... SO EFFIN' TRUE!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2020 #52

Then there's this little detail... ehrnst Feb 2020 #56

What happened to those evil millionaires. democratisphere Feb 2020 #53

"folks" and "billionaires" don't go together. betsuni Feb 2020 #54

So if Bernie is elected, greymattermom Feb 2020 #55