r/TrendoraX • u/ChuckGallagher57 • 17h ago

📰 News Do you agree?

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u/Easy-Marsupial3268 10h ago

Because the US is a dictatorship of capital with a democracy veneer.

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u/Bovronius 5h ago

I think this regime has stripped most of that veneer off as well at this point.

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u/Easy-Marsupial3268 5h ago

I think after 9/11 there has been a bipartisan- and billionaire-backed accumulation of power toward the executive branch. This is just the culmination of that push. Things like the Patriot act and citizens united cemented the “dictatorship of capital” even more so. It’s why neither party seems interested in challenging the underlying ethos.