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Trump appointed Ajit Pai to the FCC whose doing his best to gut net neutrality for big communications. You have Pruitt whose dropping regulations for his big oi
by ComradeTaco 9y ago
Trump appointed Ajit Pai to the FCC whose doing his best to gut net neutrality for big communications. You have Pruitt whose dropping regulations for his big oil pals. You have Steven Mnuchin whose goal is destroy Dodd-Frank so financial firms can get too big to fail.
This administration is the most nakedly oligarchic and monopolistic since Harding was president. To peddle this idea that Trump will be a savior to the small business owner and the working man is nothing short of a lie.
- lovich 9y agoI don't like Trump and his administration, and I think they are doing bad things like you have outlined. However, I don't think they are doing anything new other than being blatantly obvious about it. We had Eric Holder under the Obama administration who was supposed to be in charge of the arm of the government that focused on the rule of law. Instead he "... considered the economic fallout that could result from prosecuting major banks for their role in the financial crisis..."[1]. Before that we had Dick Cheney and Haliburton under Bush. There are countless other examples of naked oligarchism under both administrations and that covers the past 16 years, and I would not be surprised if you found other examples of this magnitude under Clinton, Bush 1, and Reagan. Someone born the day busy was elected would be months away from voting right now. We are undisputedly an oligarchy and are on no path to change that [1]http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/holder-big-banks-clout-has-an-inhibiting-impact-on-prosecutions/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/holder-big-banks-c...