Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To Destroy Our Government

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/billionaires-are-lying-shamelessly-to-convince-us-to-destroy-our-government

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  2. And the sad part is that the majority of people fall for their bullshit.

  3. And the idiots fell for it thanks to right wing media.

  6. But now they’ve shut down any hint of journalistic integrity on Wash Post, NY Times, LA Times, CNN, etc.

    The glaring red flag happened a month ago: Wash Post and LA Times owners both **blocked** the editors from printing their routine, planned endorsement (Harris).

  8. This really highlights the sick greed of the billionaires. In modern American society, the billionaires are already the winners. They have enough money to own homes around the world, to buy a fleet of the finest modes of transport, and to exert enormous influence over our politics and culture. They can control teams of people, and they’re never at a loss to find others who will do their bidding, whatever it is that they want. Yet despite their control over just about everything and everyone in their realm, they STILL seek to take more. Their lust for power over people and the very levers of society is helping to break this country apart.

  9. Billionaires provide free news and free social media services.

    You’re not the customer, you are the product.

  12. So they can erect a new government that better serves *them*.

    All politics is about class. Those with the lion’s share of power obscure this with other divisions to prevent the proletariat from uniting against them: race, gender, sexuality, whatever… they’re all distractions.

  13. “Poverty exists not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich”

  14. The influence of billionaires on democracy has been widely debated, with opinions suggesting that their wealth and power threaten democratic institutions and processes. Critics argue that their disproportionate influence can lead to policies that favor the rich at the expense of the broader population, ultimately undermining democratic ideals.

    * [Billionaires Are Lying Shamelessly to Convince Us To …](https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/billionaires-are-lying-shamelessly-to-convince-us-to-destroy-our-government)
    * [Opinion: The one way to stop billionaires from ruining our democracy …](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/26/opinions/wealth-inequality-tax-lee-disney/index.html)
    * [Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?](https://evonomics.com/why-billionaires-destroy-democracy-and-capitalism/)
    * [The Billionaires Who Are Threatening Democracy – The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/05/crack-up-capitalism-quinn-slobodian-book-review/674064/)
    * [The Billionaires Won: The 50-Year War on Democracy That Built Trump’s …](https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-billionaires-won-the-50-year-841)

  15. Billionaires are just as stupid as the rest of us. How is it lost on you that a functional government is the only thing keeping us from roasting you in a spit?

  16. So folks are finally waking up to reality in the past century?

  18. Vivek and Elon can both go fuck themselves. They were handed imaginary jobs and we would all be lucky if Trump didn’t honor his word like he’s so used to doing.

  19. Either that or they are actually held accountable for all the obvious crimes they do so what do you think they will go with?

  20. I genuinely feel that after the next few years, MAGA will become disillusioned and abandon Trump.
    Assuming America survives, i truly feel like this administration will be the end of it all. People will wake up in wider droves and see what hes done to the country. Its already happening, despite evidence to the contrary in that Trump won.

    Despite that, his incoming administration will have Musk in a high level position. Even if MAGA is dissolved and a Democrat wins 2028, he will have solidified his position and that of other billionaires. What then? There isnt even historical precedent to imagine how things will be like. The future doesnt look good.

  21. And we have seen this before with the French aristocracy in 1789… History rhymes.

  23. This article should have been written months ago, now I fear it is in many ways too late

  24. Fucking Joe Rogan again , and fuck this guy in the article- the cfpb has been nothing short of a miracle to help people against banks. These assholes always have to pay imaginary victims

  26. It doesn’t matter. Even if you presented the people who fall for it irrefutable evidence showing that it’s all bullshit they wouldn’t change course at this point. They aren’t making choices for what they consider
    The right reasons they’re making choices based on selfishness, fear of change and, most importantly, as a fuck you to anyone who has a modicum of progressivism. Even if they were told that if we stayed on this course Trump would literally detonate all nuclear bombs in their silos on day 1 of his presidency wiping out 90% of the US population they still would make excuses and refuse to change course. Not
    That Democrats are any better, they’d complacently let it happen while doing interviews and sending sternly worded letters condemning it until the end of the world. I feel like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. I hate everyone, for every conceivable reason.

  27. When is the last time a billionaire cared about anyone else that isn’t on their level. Wait you cucs want them to care about “small business “. Morons

  28. 2025 is projected to be exactly 💯 that, with billions running the administration to their personal benefits.

  29. Morons just voted in the Owners of the Company Store.

    The only things they have in common with Trump and fElon is being carbon based-yet these asses think that those Billionaires want to help THEM and care about their lives.

    LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

    When the bills go up but the wages go down….

  30. I encourage everyone to watch a documentary or two about the French Revolution.

    It started with a time of enlightenment, when people were told to reject what they were told and seek logical critical conclusions based on facts.

    In a time where the rich and churches lied to people while letting them starve because they couldn’t afford food.

    And even when organizing and getting to have direct representation the ruling class royals and churches colluded against the people.

    Until eventually a group of strong women who felt especially slighted violently rose up.

    (And yes, it eventually lead to royals being replaced with an insane fascist, but the start and middle parts are easy to relate to today.)

    I mean those are the cliff notes but history is seemingly circular. Much how as the Nazis rose to power the first things they attacked were women and LGBT people.

  31. Republicans spent decades breaking government so they could turn around and tell everyone the government is broken. All the billionaires like Musk did was capitalize on that sentiment.

  32. I don’t get it like they’re so rich but don’t understand how fucked they are if the country fucks its credit rating and the dollar plumits.

  35. It’s too late, that’s what we all showed up to vote to prevent.

  36. Ding ding ding. And the people bought it hook line and sinker, because (woman).

  37. Billionaires stand to gain the most out of the gutting of all regulations…

    They can destroy your environment and give you cancer for profit, deregulate taxation so they pay none and the poor and middle class pay an arm and a leg, they’ll relax labor laws so they can work you to death for pennies, screw with safety standards that stand in the way of profits, and allow themselves to play with the markets without restriction and cause economic collapse where we’re the ones who have to bail them out when we have nothing left ourselves.

    Billionaires are the enemy of the people… it’s them vs the rest of us. How these god damn Trump supporters somehow thought they were in that club…I’ll never understand. And now they gave them the keys to screw us all.

  38. Billionaires would rather not pay proportionate taxes.

  39. Billionaire: you don’t need public services. You don’t need protections for your health. The market hand will guide all of this just fine 

  40. Republicans have been doing that since Ronnie Raygun

  41. Why are they writing these headlines like they haven’t already won the election and are going to do whatever they want now? All this just smacks of hindsight “I told you so” shit.

  42. Avarice. One of the deadly sins? Of course none of these billionaires are actually Christian, so they wouldn’t care.

  44. And the magat cult are the most stupid entities on this planet!

  45. At some point people need to wake up and realize that billionaires are not their friends.

    Stop buying Tesla cars and Tesla stock. Vote in congresspeople who will curtail their greed, tax them, and regulate their industries.

    This has gotten way out of hand. People who were worth $15 billion in 2010 are now worth $100 billion to $300 billion now.

    We can’t afford billionaires.

  46. Deranged right wingers and their elite puppet masters have and always will be the enemy. If you look closely, you can actually SEE the puppet strings dazzle faintly and extend infinitely into the sky

  47. Yes, but people should have been smart enough to understand the glaringly obvious. 

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