Robert ReichBillionaires aren’t just supporting Trump for the tax cuts.
As Peter Thiel once admitted: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”
Make no mistake: The goal of American oligarchy is to tear down democracy itself.
SimplySarah@rbreich Really odd position for Thiel, a gay man, to hold considering the 140 ppl Trump had (/has?) working for him connected to Opus Dei and the Opus Dei affiliated Supreme Court Justices. If he thinks Opus Dei wants a gay man like Theil to have any kind of freedom or rights, he might want to re-think things.
Bruce Heerssen 
@SimplySarah @rbreich Thiel doesn't have anything to fear. His billions insulate him from all of that.
OhioCheryl@bruce @SimplySarah @rbreich
Trump's economic plans might crash the world economy badly enough to make his billions evaporate. No, I don't consider this looking on the bright side.
Trump's economic plans might crash the world economy badly enough to make his billions evaporate. No, I don't consider this looking on the bright side.
FediThing 
Unfortunately it is far from the only example of queer people riding the tiger of fascism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm#Personal_life_and_death
As a queer person myself I cannot fathom why someone would do this! Perhaps they think that the horrors of fascism only apply to "little people", and assume their power and/or wealth will protect them?
enoch_exe_inc@FediThing @SimplySarah @rbreich Plenty of wealthy Jews supported the Nazi Party under the mistaken assumption that their wealth would protect them from persecution. They did not survive.
@enoch_exe_inc @SimplySarah @rbreich
Neither did Röhm:
"Once inside Röhm's cell, they handed him a Browning pistol loaded with a single cartridge and told him he had ten minutes to kill himself or they would do it for him. Röhm demurred... Having heard nothing in the allotted time, Eicke and Lippert then shot and killed Röhm."
Friedrich@enoch_exe_inc @SimplySarah @FediThing @rbreich
They did not survive, when staying in Germany and occupied countries, but in US, Swiss etc. as very rich people with connections and passports.