• 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    But if they had truly implemented an earth-shattering transformation, then surely at least some faint tremors would have registered with the public. Instead, Biden’s popularity plunged early in his presidency and never recovered. There was no uptick in Biden’s approval rate produced by trustbusting, no green shoots that promised to blossom with more time.

    Perhaps oligarchal control of the media means that when progress is actually made, it is not communicated to the populace.

    Neo-Brandeisian ideas have drawn at least some support from Trump world.

    This is probably necessary if we have any hope of re-taking our country back from fascism and oligarchy.


    Well, I don’t know. The author of the piece definitely doesn’t agree, and I’m not sure if I do or not. I do know I personally think the root of our problems in the US are primarily the oligarchs. Fascists are a close second, with Evangelicals a close third.

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      15 hours ago

      I do know I personally think the root of our problems in the US are primarily the oligarchs

      Aren’t oligarchs caused by corporate consolidation?

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        They’re certainly enhanced and it’s related probably but I’m not sure it’s a 1:1 thing exactly. But far closer to the truth than things like “Democrats just don’t do anything”.