America has become an oligarchy. What’s an oligarchy? The dictionary says: “A small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution … e.g., a country governed by an oligarchy.”
America used to be a mostly capitalist country. A capitalist country has private property. Whatever you earn, so long as there’s no fraud proven in a court of law, is yours. If someone willingly pays you $5 for goods or services, it’s yours; if people willingly pay you $1 billion for goods or services, it’s all yours. Perhaps you pay taxes, but only for a limited government — for police, a military and borders that solely exist for the preservation of individual rights (including your own private money).
America has more billionaires than any country in human history. That’s because we had so much capitalism, even into the early 21st Century. But then the billionaires — most of them, the most influential ones involved with the government — decided they wanted social engineering. Whether it’s Bill Gates seeking the help of government to force people to eat what he believes they should eat, and be experimented on with untested medical treatments he thinks are cool, or whether it’s Mark Zuckerberg seeking the help of government to impose his collectivist, totalitarian viewpoints on the population, the principle is the same: Billionaires using money created in the (more or less) capitalist economy to turn the country into something very, very different from a capitalist economy.
That’s what gave rise to the Trumpian populists. People who aren’t billionaires can sense when money is NOT simply being made for billionaires and millionaires to spend as they see fit — which is their right; but when their money is also being used to buy off the government so the government may control people in any way it wishes, as with COVID fascism or the green agenda, against both the spirit and the letter of our very own Constitution and Bill of Rights … that’s an entirely different matter.
It’s important to understand one thing: THIS ISN’T CAPITALISM. Under actual capitalism, plenty of billionaires exist. But they’re not allowed to use their money to buy off the government to do things that violate the rights of individuals. They’re not allowed to use money to deliberately let rapists, shoplifters and murderers out in the streets, as George Soros has done, in a transparent bid to destroy not just American cities, but all of Western civilization.
Under capitalism, it is true that there are unequal amounts of money and property. That’s the price you pay for not being Soviet Russia, Cuba, North Korea or Venezuela. But under the law, we’re all the same. You cannot use money to blow up somebody else’s rights — or to eradicate a border so that terrorists and other enemies of the country may get in to destroy it.
America is being wiped out, systematically and pretty much out in the open, by people who profited under a system they now morally condemn and seek to eradicate. By supporting Democrats, who are Communists, fascists and terrorists all rolled into one, these billionaires are keeping you and I from enjoying the freedom they enjoyed in order to get where they are. That’s not social justice. It’s not “progressive,” other than the sense in which a fatal disease is progressive.
In the end, it seems inevitable that the billionaire totalitarians will end up destroying themselves, as well. But they’ll certainly be the last to go. The Bidens and the Zuckerbergs and the Soros and the Gates are not suffering at all now; nor will they be, even when our inflation soars ever higher and more and more people start to go broke, as they did in Venezuela and Argentina under socialism.
It’s important, when you go after the billionaire totalitarians, that you blame their sociopathy and their totalitarianism — not the economic freedom that (in more innocent days) got them where they are.