Billionaires Are Swaying Elections in All Corners of America

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Lemmy

All corners of the world.

Authoritarianism is spreading like wildfire across the globe because the rich and powerful want to remain rich and powerful.

They are using their essentially bottomless pit of money, influence, and resources to shape a world where they are permanently definitely on top.

Authoritarianism is spreading like wildfire

The entrenched neoliberal post-Cold War consensus is cracking up.

But anyone who told you that the Reagan Era global order wasn’t authoritarian sold you a box of rocks.

Upper middle class Americans are getting a taste of life outside the bubble. This is what “democracy” has felt like in The Philippines and Brazil and Ferguson, MO for some time.

They are using their essentially bottomless pit of money, influence, and resources to shape a world where they are permanently definitively on top.

When were they not? Do you think the folks fucking kids on Epstein’s Island twenty years ago weren’t doing the exact same thing?