Billionaires are Also Plutocrats and Plutocrats are A**holes: But I’m Being Redundant

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart

 

[Plutocrats: an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.]

The entire right wing of our political spectrum is owned by billionaires. In 2017, a plan to move our capitalistic society into a plutocracy was completed by a wannabe billionaire who was pretending to be our president. The situation began in 1981 when another failed “Republican” was inaugurated. Ronald Reagan’s lies fooled many real Americans, including yours truly.

I will tell you the truth no one else is willing to offer you. The TEA Party was created by the Koch brothers with the assistance of other billionaires. Its purpose remains gaining complete control or our nation’s government to secure their personal ambitions. This group of anti-Americans gave birth to an even more radical and destructive group calling themselves “the Freedom Caucus.”

In 2016, billionaire Robert Mercer took control of Donald Trump’s campaign in August and the rest is part of America’s dark history. Mercer is the financial support of Breitbart, a right-wing extremist blog and podcast. He is also a close associate of Putin and several of his oligarchs. Mercer is secretive, but it is a well-known fact that he opposes all democracies.

Capitalism has been a great evil which not only divided our country but created one of our nation’s greatest problems today; income inequality. However a plutocracy is complete control over our daily lives protected by a dictator and fascist rule. It is no secret that our nation’s motto has become “profit before people,” and this began decades in the past.

Politicians brag about America being the richest nation in the world. That is a lie, unless you are one of more than 740 billionaires who now control our country’s future. One half of all our nation’s people live below the poverty line or in the low-income demographic. We do not live in the same America as plutocrats: nothing close to it. We struggle to survive every month.

The most important thing I have learned in my 77 years is trust no one with power over my life, and extreme wealth and power are synonyms. The super-rich have no concern for Americans who do not share their lives of luxury and privilege, unless they are politicians who can be bought.

I am angry, but I am far more ashamed that our government has become corrupt and accepts and even encourages the end of the America which nurtured me in my youth.

Is there hope. I don’t believe so. The American people are the most ignorant voters in the free world. The watch Fox News and the newer right wing propaganda broadcasts. Some of them support them because they believe their lies and other because they have found someone who champions their own beliefs. Either way, they are racists, bigots, and traitors to the American way of life.

This is why I am ashamed to be an American in a country which was once the most respected in the world.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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