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Look at what’s happening all around us and see if ‘efficiency’ is the major goal of these billionaires

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We have a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires.

Why don't you just call it with descriptors that have already been used and identified by academics

It's called a PLUTOCRACY, ARISTOCRACY, KLEPTOCRACY or OLIGARCHY

It definitely is NOT a Democracy ... it isn't now ... and no one was ever really sure if it ever fully was in our modern era.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because people smart enough to understand those words explicitly likely already know what’s happening. He is messaging to everyone and clearly a lot of Americans aren’t that smart. This is an issue in this country. Democrats often preach in ways that lose the uneducated. Trump talks in a 5th grade reading level and it connects with them. I think speaking the way Sanders does is more accessible.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Words ending with -archy and -cracy are academic words that your average American doesn't appear to truly understand. Even academics will use those words as if it is all talking about a history long ago or a faraway hypothetical land when the problems are directly in front of us, here and now.

This is Sanders using vocabulary that will get to the brains of your working class American.

(Further, Sanders has countless times made reference to America being an aw-ligaw-kic society in his speeches)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

and no one was ever really sure if it ever fully was in our modern era

Politicians all over Europe have already started to turn current events into oppurtunities to line their own pockets and those of their cronies so I'd say it's not new and it's not just the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People reporting in this like it hasn't been the case for decades

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't think things are different now than they were 10 years ago?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I think the seeds were planted back then (and earlier); we’re now seeing them come to fruition. So it depends what you mean by “different.”