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Does White America Deserve To Be Shafted and Eaten Alive By The Tech Oligarchs?
Just asking…
If confirmation was needed that Trump’s government would be entirely be shaped by oligarchs, the last few days have provided ample evidence of what the next four years would look like.
No sooner did the convicted felon launch his own cryptocurrency than it plummeted, when his spouse decided to introduce her version to the markets.
What we have seen thus far, and the inauguration was only several hours ago, helps to crystallize the view that we will see unprecedented levels of wealth transfer and monetization from the 47th President.
And this has been made possible by the white working class.
Never before in the history of western politics have we had the wealthiest coalesce around the leading political figure of the time.
John Rockefeller, who founded Standard Oil, which dominated the late 19th century, was no fan of William McKinley and his successor — Theodore Roosevelt.
Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford and the business world weren’t at all enamoured by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and there were rumours of a coup, swirling around Washington in 1934, which ultimately came to nought.