Dan Wentzel 🏳️‍🌈Aug 10, 2023

Growing up Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher told us that capitalism went hand in hand with freedom and democracy.

Today we can see that capitalists can quite comfortably walk hand in hand with authoritarianism and fascism to maintain and consolidate their wealth and power.

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@danwentzel Margaret Thatcher praised Augusto Pinochet, so it was pretty dang clear that freedom was not something she was too concerned about... "Today, we can see", no seriously, we saw it well back then too.
Aug 10, 2023 at 9:27pmWeb