2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WikiLeaks: Is This Email The FBI's Star Witness AGAINST Hillary Clinton? [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)"neither of them are real"
Of course the transcripts exist. And they will be released.
On the e-mails, I agree with you about the triviality of a mere felony of the kind most of the politicians sooner or later commit, as compared to the worldspanning mass murder operations that Clinton has helped to conduct. But if it stops her, which I don't expect, so be it. (What I do expect is that it becomes the stuff of some four-year impeachment soap opera that suspends all other business, just like with her husband.)
Oligarchs is a special category of capitalist overlord, the billionaires basically. The big corporations are obviously a larger factor.
The past? Wealth concentration and direct corporate control of politics have never been greater than today, not even in 1929 or the Gilded Age. But of course that's no concern to an acute analyst of political economy like yourself. I will miss you for the easy fodder.