Look at what’s happening all around us and see if ‘efficiency’ is the major goal of these billionaires

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    We have a government of billionaires, by billionaires and for billionaires.

    Why don’t you just call it with descriptors that have already been used and identified by academics

    It’s called a PLUTOCRACY, ARISTOCRACY, KLEPTOCRACY or OLIGARCHY

    It definitely is NOT a Democracy … it isn’t now … and no one was ever really sure if it ever fully was in our modern era.

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      Because people smart enough to understand those words explicitly likely already know what’s happening. He is messaging to everyone and clearly a lot of Americans aren’t that smart. This is an issue in this country. Democrats often preach in ways that lose the uneducated. Trump talks in a 5th grade reading level and it connects with them. I think speaking the way Sanders does is more accessible.

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      Words ending with -archy and -cracy are academic words that your average American doesn’t appear to truly understand. Even academics will use those words as if it is all talking about a history long ago or a faraway hypothetical land when the problems are directly in front of us, here and now.

      This is Sanders using vocabulary that will get to the brains of your working class American.

      (Further, Sanders has countless times made reference to America being an aw-ligaw-kic society in his speeches)

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      and no one was ever really sure if it ever fully was in our modern era

      Politicians all over Europe have already started to turn current events into oppurtunities to line their own pockets and those of their cronies so I’d say it’s not new and it’s not just the US.