Shout out to outgoing president Joe Biden for warning the public about the dangers of the oligarchy sweeping our nation on the eve of Trump's inauguration. The warning is similar to the one Eisenhower made before he left office about the military-industrial complex. Unfortunately, his warning was realized with the horrid Vietnam War. Hopefully the country will not suffer a similar fate as the oligarchs attempt to dismantle the Constitution in favor of corporate power. Trump has always been a master con artist. This time he managed to trick even the supposedly educated independents of this country into thinking he cares about the working class, despite his disastrous first term. It's really unconsciable what is happening. I have been reading in "Autocracy Inc." about how countries like Russia and China are actively manipulating social media to help promote far right autocrats who would have the assistance of oligarchs, not just in our country but in countries around the world, especially in Latin America and Africa. These are traditionally weak democratic areas, and the idea is to undermine western idealism by using the exploitation of the Global South against them. Because the weakness of democracy is that it lends a stronger voice to those with money, the autocrats are succeeding at convincing people, in this country and beyond, that it is only those with money who can make their lives better, but without the assistance of big government. Their goal is to trick us into believing that big government, funded by high taxes on the rich, cannot be trusted and is causing economic mayhem. The truth is that they don't want to be taxed. They don't want to be held accountable for exploiting workers' rights and the environment, because it reduces their profits. And the only ones who can give them that power are the strong man autocrats, one who happens to be a master manipulator and billionaire who will run the richest country in the world. These are interesting times. Will the Russian ideology succeed by seducing Americans to believe their democracy doesn't work? For the sake of freedom, we must continue to believe it won't.
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