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Americans are slowly realizing they're living in a plutocracy (lemmy.ml)
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[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

people thought communists and communist adjacent people were loonies for believing that the liberal democracies were oligarchies masqueraded as democracies, so yes Americans actually believed it.