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bluegal.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Citizens United let them do it.

Let this sink in for a minute:

Six billionaire families primarily funded Project 2025, the far-right social agenda now ravaging American society.

These include the wealthy Coors, Koch, Uihlein, Scaife, Seid, and Bradley families.

A few peoples' wealth is diverting the path of our entire culture.

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robertkblechman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Agreed. Every billionaire represents a failure of public policy. Billionaires aren’t part of the solution. They are part of the problem.‬

robertkblechman.bsky.social•7 days ago

One can be in favor of well-regulated capitalism and private property without ceding the bulk of national assets to the mental illness of extreme wealth hoarders. These few are granted privilege without responsibility and influence without accountability.‬

robertkblechman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Most progressive modern societies are a mixture of necessary socialism and well-regulated capitalism. American society falls short on the proper application of both. It doesn't have to be either/or and it can be better.

robertkblechman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Billionaires are wealth hoarders. I place the blame on the rest of us (public policy) for permitting economic rules, tax & inheritance laws, etc, that allow some people to hoard wealth. If anything, I think wealth hoarders have a mental illness, like other compulsive hoarders

robertkblechman.bsky.social•7 days ago

Those wealth hoarders who do give back to the polity, donate to charity, support medical research, endow schools, museums or other beneficial institutions create a society where it is accepted that those public “goods” can only exist at the whims of the elites.

robertkblechman.bsky.social•7 days ago

This situation is more common in human history than not. Most human civilizations have been controlled by the 1%.
A promise of our democratic Republic is the potential to address this imbalance perhaps for the first time in history. Trump and his billionaire buddies are stripping away this promise.

mountuhuru.bsky.social•7 days ago

This is a helpful update. Thanks.

missbike.bsky.social•7 days ago

These are the Crazy Birchers that Hunter S Thompson talked about.
Also, why Madame Defarge is known for knitting.

missbike.bsky.social•7 days ago

I need to learn some knitting. It’s right for the times. I sew and it’s kept me busy.

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