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Lol... "the capitalist oligarchy"?
Is the GOP. Trump is the shitty, dilapidated face of the GOP, so people say Trump sometimes.
Oversimplification of the problems we face is a mistake. You can't blame the economic system for corruption when corruption can take place so easily in virtually any system.
Historically capital captured democrats supported these types of initiatives in the past, such as the patriot act and its renewals, as well as increased funding to the institutions that implemented Prism.
Both sides are very much beholden to capital interests, so it's accurate to call it capitalist oligarchs.
Oh, I'm not a fan of the democrats. Fuck 'em.
But what's your alternative? Do you think corruption vanishes when capitalism crumbles?
Sweet summer child, history does not agree with your platitudinous outlook.
I fucking hate the American corporate system. I hate what they do to everyone, myself included. I'm not even against changing that system.
But that alone won't solve this problem... If you believe otherwise, I have a bridge I'd like to share with you.
My comment is in response to the idea that only the GOP are 'The capitalist Oligarchy', my point is both sides are fucked, the Democrats just slow down the fucking.
I think building up an alternative system within our current one so that there's not a power vacuum when it all collapses is the best path forward. This is known as Prefiguration. Ideally, we'd prefigure towards a libertarian socialist society, much like was practiced in Catalonia in the 30's, and as depicted in The Dispossessed.