alt Hacker NewsIncreasingly true in Trump’s America.
It’s somewhat the point of democracy to maintain a limit on rent seekers’ and wealth extractors’ power on the political process. It should come as no surprise that the individuals who have grifted and extorted their way into power are also fiercely antidemocratic. The xenophobes and bigots that have hitched their wagons are equally deplorable.
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I'ma keep it creamy with you, both parties have had the kind of political majority required to clamp down on the corporatization of our society, and neither have so much as paid lip service to doing so. You want to be mad at the current administration by all means there's fertile ground, but don't waste anyone's time blaming them for a situation that's been decades in the making with both major political parties pushing in tandem to realize it.
Can we not do this here? You're all so busy rooting for your respective teams like sportsball morons that you've completely missed that the teams' owners have the same plans and go to dinner parties together. There's a thousand other forums for this tedious, shallow, uninformed bickering. This thread is a perfect example of why HN has a "no politics" guideline. Do it on reddit or X please.