Tag Archives: oligarchy

Those Who Will Work For Us

Posted on June 28, 2025 by Dave Bradley

16 minutes – I lifted this video from JD Scholten’s weekly newsletter “You’re Probably Getting Screwed.” Hope you felt a tremor this week. The once solid ground of old style Democrats were shaken by the upset victory in New York … Continue reading →

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Important to Know

Posted on April 6, 2025 by Dave Bradley

Politics girl: (2:40) A simple straight forward lesson on how the constitution works. We need to be reminded in this time when one man is trying to upend the constitution and accrue power into his own hands and that of … Continue reading →

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Money Controls MAGA. We Are Screwed

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Dave Bradley

  Thom Hartmann’s daily newsletter for Friday took on what an oligarchy will mean in the US. It is pretty obvious that an oligarchy is what the American people voted into office if only by less than half a percentage … Continue reading →

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Jack E. Smith Hits The Nail On The Head

Posted on November 16, 2024 by Dave Bradley

(Editor’s note: Jack E. Smith is a parody X account and is in no way affiliated with the special counsel Jack Luman Smith) Don’t miss what’s happening Jack E Smith Jack E. Smith  @7Veritas4 I, like many of you, have … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Hidden History of American Healthcare

Posted on August 30, 2021 by Paul Deaton

In The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich, author Thom Hartmann returns to familiar themes of greed, racism and oligarchic corruption. He applies them to a system of healthcare that profits the … Continue reading →

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Of The People, By The People And For The People

Posted on July 3, 2021 by Dave Bradley

As we crash into the Independence Day weekend this year with a feeling that the doom that was at the door last year is no longer quite beating the door down, our thoughts can go beyond merely surviving to once … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Hidden History Of American Oligarchy

Posted on January 19, 2021 by Paul Deaton

In The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class, Thom Hartmann recounts three periods of increased hegemony of oligarchs in American society. He posits that with the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on Jan. … Continue reading →

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Recent Videos From Robert Reich: Oligarchy Versus The Rest Of Us

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Corporate lies. A couple of things that Reich doesn’t mention in here are: Labor union are the most effective deterrent to an accretion of power in an executive in a democracy. Labor voting for the party of money and business … Continue reading →

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History And The Current American Oligarchy 

Posted on March 3, 2018 by Dave Bradley

One of the major problems of our over saturation of news and not so much news sources is that often much of what we are fed daily is a current update as if this is all happening in a vacuum … Continue reading →

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From Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis”

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Dave Bradley

December 23, 1776 THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and … Continue reading →

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