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To be fair, the wealthy didn't ruin the US, I think the tea party movement and the involvement of near-retarded anti-vax flat-earth paranoid conspiracy nuts in
by CuriouslyC 3y ago
To be fair, the wealthy didn't ruin the US, I think the tea party movement and the involvement of near-retarded anti-vax flat-earth paranoid conspiracy nuts in politics is ruining things.
- mcbuilder 3y agoThose people help vote in bad politicians, but their propaganda is fed by opportunistic and wealthy. It's a cycle, but it's definitely "top-down" at least if you want to ascribe actual malice.
- 082349872349872 3y agoAccording to Goldstein, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism (appearing in [Orwell49]), there are two possible governing coalitions in any society: Low+High (vs Middle) or Low+Middle (vs High). If both Low and Middle were to agree the High ought be taxed, it would be to the High's advantage to stoke culture wars between Low and Middle in an effort to ensure the first coalition. (posted before at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826408 )
- CuriouslyC 3y agoThere are wealthy people on both sides of the equation. The braindead mouthbreather contingent is much larger on one side of the spectrum.
- phkahler 3y ago>> To be fair, the wealthy didn't ruin the US Not sure how you think US policy is controlled by anyone other than rich people...
- jkestner 3y agoAnd who funded this idiocy in order to get less taxes and regulations?