The Fascade, of Democracy, No Longer Exists, the 1% Conrol Everyting ! 

The Fascade, of Democracy, No Longer Exists, the 1% Conrol Everyting ! 

The Statue of Oligarchy

 From: The Billionaire Problem: How Accumulated Wealth Is Killing American Democracy:

In the America of today:

• The top 1% owns nearly 40% of wealth — and captured 70% of pandemic-era gains — while the bottom 50% saw minimal growth.
• Half of policy choices with broad public backing fail when elites oppose them.
• Thomas Piketty, in Capital in the Twenty‑First Century, warns that when capital’s return consistently exceeds growth, inherited wealth perpetuates oligarchy.

The result? A self‑reinforcing feedback loop: immense wealth yields economic clout, which buys political influence, which then preserves the tax breaks and loopholes fueling that wealth — often at the expense of public services and middle‑class resilience.

In today’s United Sates, decades of wealth consolidation has led to less than 1% of the population controls almost everything!

• How The Ultra-Rich Game The Tax System: Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans?
• The Monopolization ofAmerica: The four largest food companies control 82% of beef packing. 70% of toothpaste sales go to just 2 companies.Cable and Internet? It’s basically 4 companies.We used to have antitrust laws that stopped corporations from monopolizing markets. Not anymore.                                                                  The 6 Companies That Own (Almost) All Media
• Defining Oligarchy: The Fusion of Wealth and Power in American DemocracyPolitical rhetoric scholar Luke Winslow, Ph.D., associate professor of communication at Baylor University and author of “Oligarchy in America: Power, Justice, and the Rule of the Few,” has traced the evolution of oligarchy in the United States to shed light on how modern oligarchy is reshaping America through the increasing fusion of economic power and political influence,                                                                                                                 
• Contol the Unions: Stateification of the United States Trade UnionsThough the Democratic Party and the Cliton Administration Labor Secretary, they had become openly and contractorly in a Declared a Partnership with the Boss! I also learned that the Building Trades Internationals had made such a promise in 1983 and pledged to take care of any local areas, that might oppose such a partnership. (The NLRB helped them in this proces.) For a more indepth analysis of this process read The Fall of the Trade Union Movement in 1998.    One result of this ‘Partnership’ Was the Complete Betrayal of the Working Class. The Betrayal has led to the unions assisting the employers to drasticly cut the standard og living of the entire Working Class! Workers have not had ral wage increase,adjcusted for inflation, since 1972!                                                           

What Can be Done?

To begin, stop supporting all organiztions, political and social that are controled by or support the 1% rule!

The Liberals and the Social Democrates support the Democrats as the Lesser Evil, But this is contradicted by the the fact that the Denocrats started the transiton from Progressive Taxation to Regresive Taxatiion. President Kennedy’s ’tax reform’ increased the taxes of the working class and middle class, and dcreased the taxes of the right 1%. This has been the policies of the Republicrates since Kennedy, today’s regressive taxation.

Organize against the regressive tax codes! Extensive Polls Find Americans Support Taxing the Wealthy The excessively wealthy and greedy corporations have rigged the rules. Our economic system allows a select few to accumulate enormous personal wealth while the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves.     This system has created an invisible structure through which a very small yet monumentally influential few shape every aspect of life for all Americans. The excessively wealthy redirect elected officials’ priorities with their campaign contributions, block housing solutions that would allow everyone to have a safe place to call home, decide what our children are taught in school, manipulate the press to cherry pick what information is available, fund massive misinformation campaigns, and so much more.    Despite all this, there is hope for a more equal future. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans support taxing the rich, which is an expression agianst the excessive taxation of the 99%  While these individual polls have been important indicators of public opinion, in a first of its kind report the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute has aggregated those polling results into a systematic analysis.     But that is an even stronger case for critical reforms of the regressive American tax code!

To begin we can follow the example of the people fightinh ICE. From In the Public Interest Website: Freezing Out Ice How state and local governments can stop Trump’s violent immigration crackdown: “Blowing whistles as a public warning system. Forming rapid-response groups on Signal. Filming arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Pounding drums and making noise at hotels where ICE agents sleep. Pouring into the streets for protests and days of ‘no work, no school, no shopping.’   These are just some of the many ways Americans are protecting their neighbors from the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants.”  These action were done by community groups and loacal union organizations.  In Minneapolis these Actions led to One Day Gerneral Stike.                                                                                                        Minneapolis Strike     

To begin, we must local community organizations and local labor unions to organize actions and to petition for state and local referendums to ‘Tax the Rich and End Regressive Taxation’ and by any way necessary, to establish majority rule!