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I don’t know why anyone is worried about this - the worse the corruption and give away to the 0.01% the bigger the blowback. The end result is the 0.01% are goi

I don’t know why anyone is worried about this - the worse the corruption and give away to the 0.01% the bigger the blowback. The end result is the 0.01% are going to pay far more than if they had been reasonable.

ZeroGravitas 9y ago
The standard operating procedure when American oligarchs feel threatened is war and racial/ethnic/religious division to distract the rubes. So probably quite a few people should be worried. I like your optimism though.
- danieltillett 9y ago
  This sort of thing has been used for the last 40 years and its effectiveness is drawing to an end. Nobody believes anything the oligarchs say anymore. You can only pull on a rubber band for so long before it eventually breaks and smacks you in the face. The band is now very, very tight. The next economic downturn risks unleashing something that no amount of money can control.
  - Judgmentality 9y ago
    > Nobody believes anything the oligarchs say anymore. And yet Donald Trump was elected president.
    - anigbrowl 9y ago
      The fact that people put a game show host of his ilk in that office is the death of the institutional canary.
    - danieltillett 9y ago
      He was not elected because of support of the oligarchs. Jeb Bush was the sort of President they wanted. I think people underestimate how much of a break Donald is from the past - not because of who he is, but because of the way he was elected. Someone with real political skill is going to emerge from this desire for major change and if you are a member of the 0.01% you should be worried.
  - uniacid 9y ago
    > The next economic downturn risks unleashing something that no amount of money can control. More like we'll be in such debt that no amount of tax increase will save us for decades? if you think some how people are going to suddenly revolt against the system then I wouldn't hold my breath... I didn't see anyone with pitchforks and torches back during 2008, I sure don't expect anything now from this lazy and increasingly misinformed and uneducated society.
    - danieltillett 9y ago
      History if full of rich people who thought they were safe right up until the moment they were being strung up or their heads cut off. Nothing has changed about human nature in the last few hundred years.

ZeroGravitas 9y ago

The standard operating procedure when American oligarchs feel threatened is war and racial/ethnic/religious division to distract the rubes. So probably quite a few people should be worried. I like your optimism though.

danieltillett 9y ago
This sort of thing has been used for the last 40 years and its effectiveness is drawing to an end. Nobody believes anything the oligarchs say anymore. You can only pull on a rubber band for so long before it eventually breaks and smacks you in the face. The band is now very, very tight. The next economic downturn risks unleashing something that no amount of money can control.
- Judgmentality 9y ago
  > Nobody believes anything the oligarchs say anymore. And yet Donald Trump was elected president.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    The fact that people put a game show host of his ilk in that office is the death of the institutional canary.
  - danieltillett 9y ago
    He was not elected because of support of the oligarchs. Jeb Bush was the sort of President they wanted. I think people underestimate how much of a break Donald is from the past - not because of who he is, but because of the way he was elected. Someone with real political skill is going to emerge from this desire for major change and if you are a member of the 0.01% you should be worried.
- uniacid 9y ago
  > The next economic downturn risks unleashing something that no amount of money can control. More like we'll be in such debt that no amount of tax increase will save us for decades? if you think some how people are going to suddenly revolt against the system then I wouldn't hold my breath... I didn't see anyone with pitchforks and torches back during 2008, I sure don't expect anything now from this lazy and increasingly misinformed and uneducated society.
  - danieltillett 9y ago
    History if full of rich people who thought they were safe right up until the moment they were being strung up or their heads cut off. Nothing has changed about human nature in the last few hundred years.