almost regardless of your politics if you believe in democracy at all then Elon sized fortunes are intolerable. but “centrism” often boils down to “chickenshit”
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Steve Randy Waldman
so, are centrist Democrats for or against at this point some combination of wealth tax / progressive income tax that would render accumulations of wealth at Musk, Bezos, or even Gates levels unsustainable?
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For example:
The Mellon Family's banking fortune which got its start before The Civil War in slave-dependent economics. It continues to distort our politics, having survived The Great Depression and World War II. ->
It would be funny if his self-delusion weren't so destructive. ->
At the bottom of each of those economic singularities you'll find a Tim Mellon or, now, a Tech oligarch.
Also notable how some moderates *are* fighters, like Rep Pat Ryan