“Who would have thought then that billionaires would seek to become the new bosses of American politics?” asked literally not one single person who has paid attention to American politics for the last century
@davidsirota @jalefkowit dang that's crazy. totally unrelated, but I wonder who owns The Washington Post
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From the paper that brought you "women should lower their standards and date abusive men so they can get married and have babies like all women want to do."
@davidsirota they'll have an Editorial Followup that points out 'Billionaires haven't existed very long, therefore it's new potatoes, everyone!'
Please tell me you’re kidding.
@kegill yes and no. Tongue-in-cheek - but it wouldn't surprise me even a little
The fact that I asked should tell you all you need to know about my feelings about newsroom innumeracy.
@davidsirota If the billionaires and others would take their ill gotten gains and disappear no none would have a problem with them too much. But since they keep rigging it for themselves while others struggle just to survive is just evil.
@davidsirota Most all of us recognized this long ago and is why we had laws against rampant spending by gazillionaires. However, the right wing court, which was bought by gazillionaires, reversed these laws (eg. Citizens United), with little pushback from either major party.
I bet it is far easier to buy off the opposition party than it is to buy off the court system one inserted justice at a time.
@noyes @davidsirota Yeah but the gazillionaires targeted the courts first, then the political parties. Reason was that there were laws in place to prevent the latter and needed the courts to rule those invalid.
@davidsirota What a great insight... and for any meaningful change we MUST Work for DEM WINS AHEAD !
The Houses of Morgan, Mellon, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Stanford, and du Pont would be surprised if billionaires had NOT maintained their outsized influence over American politics, policies, legislation, and regulation. What's changed are some of their last names, and their dress, cuisine, transport, and telecoms. The rest is commentary.
The WaPo and its peers are frauds to express Condoleezza Rice-like surprise at the continuation of a long and obvious tradition.
@davidsirota I hope that is snark, no one can be that dumb.
@davidsirota The fact that America's richest families have reduced the GOP to the status of a lowly chai wallah would have been news in 1982, but not today.
@davidsirota They are 40 years behind the times, at least. But better late than never.
@davidsirota I could have sworn there was something about this in Mr Smith Goes to Washington, almost 100 years go...