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Summary
In his farewell speech, President Joe Biden warned of a growing “oligarchy” in the U.S., where extreme wealth and power threaten democracy.
Comparing modern elites to 19th-century robber barons, he called for reforms to hold the wealthy accountable, as done in the past.
Biden also criticized a “tech-industrial complex” concentrating power and spreading disinformation, weakening democracy.
His remarks sparked a surge in Google searches for “oligarchy.”
The speech comes amid rising concerns about policies favoring billionaires, like Trump’s tax cuts and potential cuts to social safety programs.
If Texas is anything like Alberta/Saskatchewan up here (it is)… I’ll take a stab at it.
75% of those people who you went to school with who were learning all of this right along with you, went home to parents who derided, blathered, and sometimes flat out beat those “librul” ideas out of them in the name of being a “god fearin’ christian family”.
Nothing they learned lasted past highschool when they married their highschool sweetheart, got a job at the mine and voted exactly the same way their parents and grandparents had for decades…
Add to that the 80% or so of students who never paid attention to a single lesson then 5 years later post to Facebook “wHy DiDnT wE lEaRn ThIs In ScHOol???”
Oh god yes…
50% never leave the small town they grew up in. Spend their evenings spending the majority of their paycheque on booze and playing the VLTs in the local bar (which is on the bottom floor of the town’s ONLY hotel, BTW) while their wife takes care of the kids and wonder where her life would be if she hadn’t gotten knocked up immediately after highschool.
But their shit life is ALL the Liberals (Canada) / Democrats (US) fault, apparently.