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In reply to the discussion: 77 Right Wing Oligarchs Want to Finish the Job [View all]ancianita
(38,701 posts)Have you ever read "The Devil and Tom Walker" by Washington Irving? That's who Buffett has become.
Read up on philanthropy. Philanthropy was invented by the rich to
a) assuage their stricken consciences about HOW they made their money, and
b) to control who deserves money so that they can keep a docile class system in place through the power of their money.
I want you to know that while oligarchs exist, even good ones like
Democratic donors like Tom Steyer, Fred Eychaner, George Marcus, Deborah Simon, S. Donald Sussman and a whole lot of the Hollywood crowd, and very few of the Silicon Valley crowd, I also want to remind you of this:
We are in oligarch wars right now.
We are SUFFERING because for decades the anti-woman patriarchal oligarchs have by stealth bought the GOP, the SCOTUS, AND ARE NOW TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE ENTIRE EXECUTIVE BRANCH through henchmen.
Want me to list the Democrats whose campaigns have accepted Big Oil money? THAT's how oligarchs operate. They are insurgents of every democratic institution through their corporations.
They are in league with mammon -- they cannot serve two masters and have sold their souls no matter how much they go to church -- and through their corporate investments and donations, don't care about humans' welfare, only themselves and those nearest them.
Bernie Sanders has always been right about oligarchs, and when Biden says, "I don't care what millionaires think," I'm with Joe who is with women and unions.