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I like blaming Biden and all but let's be real we are in this mess because a bunch of the people that occupy the underclass with us are actively fighting against us and for the rich ass rulers.

The DNC is complicit and has been for years.... But betraying Bernie was the inciting incident for the US's most recent foray into authoritarianism.

I genuinely can't believe that there is any overlap at all with the maybe 500 people who actually listened to his speech or even read an article summarizing it and those who don't know what the meaning of "oligarchy" is.

How does anyone get engaged enough in the political process to watch a speech from Biden and not recall Bernie Sanders saying this every day of his life for the last 30 years?

I have no free will so I didn't choose to disagree, so I am just predestined for hell I guess

Remember when a Bernie campaigner called Bloomberg an oligarch in 2020 and all the mainstream Dems clutched their pearls so hard?

Pepperidge Farm remembers

I was going to disagree, but I realized you said "complacent" and not "guilty". Yeah. He was certainly complacent as far as I know.

Hey now - he was perfectly fine with the plutocracy that has ruled for hundreds of years. It's Republican legislation that led to this -- think Dodd-Frank.

Democrat leadership is happy to skim some off the top. Republicans will strip it to the bone.

We had that in November

Want definitive proof?

There are 244m eligible voters in the United States.

77m voted for Trump. Idiots.

2.6m voted 3rd party. Idiots.

90m didn't vote. Idiots.

90+77+2.6 = 169.6

That means 170m of 244m eligible voters are braindead stupid. That's 69.7%. So we essentially have a 70% failure rate amongst eligible voters for maintaining our democracy.

Yeah, Americans, in general, are STUUUUUUUUUPID.

Yeah, we're in a declining nation and it's probably not going to get better anytime soon.

I actually consider this really positive on a few fronts.

Firstly, people are trying to learn. That's great.

Oligarchy is not a common word if your English level isn't great and that's true for lots of people. Even if you read books a decent amount it's not something I think you'd come across frequently.

Also, for folks who don't know what an oligarchy is, for them to find out they're possibly living in one may change their world view.

I'm sure there are more.

Yes, because the early USA did not resemble an modern oligarchy but rather a plutocracy which despite its problems still has greater room for a merit based system than a modern oligarchy provides. We are intentionally concentrating a tremendous amount of wealth in the hands of very few people.

To be fair, high school government/civics classes are probably so gutted that I'm happy when people understand the three branches of government.

Biden was a good president. And then he enabled Israel to go on a spree of war crimes, and also allowed Trump to, uh, live.

Bruh, he missed the perfect opportunity to call Obama a communist.

Love Carlin. Hate this quote.

1. "Half of them are smarter than that" is just as true but doesn't have the same zing.
2. The zing is that the regurgitation makes everyone feel as though they are on the right side of the distribution and thus superior.

Truth is, we are all closer to chimps than Einstein. And Einstein still left some lingering questions for us to solve.

That's the distribution. Not "Everyone is stupid except me and you, dear reader."

Oh damn, just comparing it to 'oligarchy' and it's much bigger.

Social studies was history? And civics and economics and religion/philosophy and geography. It's just the overarching name for the study of human society.

Social Studies is civics and history. If you think they should be separate classes, fair enough.

I'll do you one better, WHY is Oligarchy?