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Are you under the impression that they don't?
As an example... fox news.
And the Sinclair Media Group.
To answer OP's question succinctly, yes, and they do.
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The Republicans have been caught entirely funding the green party in multiple swing states.
They absolutely use their money to sabotage the democrats
Either sabotage Democrats or make them pursue more right wing policies, which is why there was so much Reagan praise at the DNC when every dem voter under 40 hates his guts.
I'm 50 and I hate that piece of shit.
bit older and so do i
It's called gerrymandering.
Been going on my entire life so far
The obscenely wealthy donate to both parties. Both parties protect the interests of the wealthy.
Hell, there have been two Democratic administrations that had total congressional control over the last sixteen years. The minimum wage is still seven bucks an hour.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
and all that
That's why they trot out Jill Stein every four years to try and split the vote.
Yes, and they do.
They play both sides where possible because they can afford to
They would, and they do.
But because they're rich and determined to play both sides of the fight, they also pour some (less) money towards the Democrats to have some leverage.
I think choice and/or the illusion of choice needs to be there for either side's fringe elements to have a safe outlet for their frustrations. There needs to be a viable left-leaning party to control potential socialist or communist agitators. If they just completely shut down the Democratic party, then there's the potential that somebody outside of the control of the aristocratic classes comes to power. Having the Democratic party around gives them a chance to funnel those people through the system and subtly bend them and make them more agreeable to the system. So maybe somebody would've been a bomb-throwing anarchist advocating for blowing up the status quo and beheading all the billionaires, but when processed through the Democratic party, maybe they turn into somebody like AOC or Bernie Sanders or something, still willing to work within the system and less likely to advocate revolution.
I'm still not sure about Trump, he still seems like an abnormality or a glitch in the system. I don't know if he went AWOL and the aristocracy doesn't want to move against their own, or if he's just part of "the plan" to move the country to the Right and having a crazy man-child as president gives them cover to push through all their extreme right-wing policies while everyone else fixates on the latest dumb thing that Trump tweeted. Or maybe it's all just anarchy and there is no conspiracy of the aristocracy, I don't know. Trump's existence just seems like one of those things the TVA would've come in and destroyed this whole timeline over.
....there are a ton of billionaire Democrat backers.
Can you describe their “power over the economy”?
Uhm. They control the price of things. They control wages. They control different markets, like the housing market. They control land development and energy. You know, things the economy relies on.
How do they “control the price of things”? Or wages?
... they sit on the board of the major companies and say, "we need to raise prices." Or "we need to decrease wages."
And then it happens why?
They raise the price and refuse wage increases. Are you not familiar with how a corporation works?
Why hadn’t they raised them before? Why don’t they keep raising them until prices are at infinity?
Why don’t they lower wages to zero, or negative?
They didn't think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could. Slavery showed us that.
They didn't think they could get away with raising prices so far before. And they would pay us nothing if they could.
What does “get away” with it mean? Why can’t they pay us nothing?
Because we fought a war over it and made it illegal. And previously it was assumed price increases would drive customers away. But the monopoly power of corporations like Kroger's had gone further than anyone thought.
Sorry, what are you talking about? What “war”? What was made illegal?
Okay, on the chance you're not American, the American Civil War, and slavery.
Who said anything about slavery? What are you talking about?
If you're going to post so many comments, at least read the chain. Otherwise someone might mistake you for a troll.
I mean I am the chain, I’m asking you what the fuck you’re talking about and you’re really bad at having clear ideas
Oh, perfect recall then? In that case you know exactly where in your line of 5 year old style questioning that slavery was mentioned.
Socratic questioning goes back a lot longer than 5 years, stupid
That is not the Socratic method. Questioning how the CEO of a corporation has control over pricing is just trolling.
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