There is no democracy in the US. There is only capitalism.
https://x.com/BenjaminNorton/status/2056900900376240243
The US is not a democracy; it's an oligarchy.
Trump's billionaire oligarch Epstein-linked friends spent tens of millions of dollars, in the most expensive House primary race in history. And they won.
Why? Congressman Thomas Massie pushed to release the Epstein files, opposes the war on Iran, and called to end weapons shipments to Israel. He is one of the very few anti-war voices in Congress, and he criticized Trump from within the Republican Party. So they wanted his head.
Massie's billionaire-funded, Trump-backed opponent, Ed Gallrein, is a shady pro-war former Navy SEAL who strongly supports the imperialist war on Iran.
Massie said billionaire oligarchs were trying to "buy" his seat. He was right. And they just succeeded.
Massie is a libertarian Republican, and he and I have many, many political differences. We disagree on lots of issues. But this is not about that.
What this shows is that US capitalist oligarchs completely control the political system. If there is a politician they don't like -- not just leftists, but even the few conservatives who oppose US imperialist wars -- capitalist oligarchs will flood the race with money, spread propaganda and disinformation, and win the "election".
There is no democracy in the US. There is only capitalism.
posted by Satish Sharma at
07:20
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