I agree, sort of. The concentration of power in the US federal government is a huge issue, especially that of the president. However the concentration of power that I’m more worried about lies within the wealth of a few individuals. That power needs to be decentralized swiftly and brutally. The power balance in state vs federal is moot if one man can spend a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of their wealth to buy every politician in the US. And theres a ton of people like that. With that wealth.
They will not give it back willingly. They will not allow you to vote them out. They have enough money to buy every politician, do you seriously think they will allow those politicians to pass laws that will tax them out of existence? If by some miracle enough politicians turned down the money and began passing laws to tax billionaires out of existence, they would do anything in their power to prevent that. This is billions on the line. They would ASSASSINATE people before allowing that to happen. They certainly have before.
Sorry I went on a little tangent there, but I got myself all worked up and frustrated again about this shit. There isn’t an easy, bloodless, show up every once in a while and vote your way out of this solution.
I agree, sort of. The concentration of power in the US federal government is a huge issue, especially that of the president. However the concentration of power that I’m more worried about lies within the wealth of a few individuals. That power needs to be decentralized swiftly and brutally. The power balance in state vs federal is moot if one man can spend a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of their wealth to buy every politician in the US. And theres a ton of people like that. With that wealth.
They will not give it back willingly. They will not allow you to vote them out. They have enough money to buy every politician, do you seriously think they will allow those politicians to pass laws that will tax them out of existence? If by some miracle enough politicians turned down the money and began passing laws to tax billionaires out of existence, they would do anything in their power to prevent that. This is billions on the line. They would ASSASSINATE people before allowing that to happen. They certainly have before.
Sorry I went on a little tangent there, but I got myself all worked up and frustrated again about this shit. There isn’t an easy, bloodless, show up every once in a while and vote your way out of this solution.
Worse than billionaires are foreign countries buying out the govt, e.g. AIPAC
I think local oligarchs are a far more compromising and dangerous issue.