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What Is Democracy?

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Money Power - The Backbone of American Populism

i see january sixth as a similar process. You know, trump is, goes into office on this populous promise to fight essentially our oligarchic aletes and ther you mention their managerial servants in your peace. But what does he do legislatively? The only major legislative accomplishment is a paul ryan engineer tax cut for corporations. So, ik, trumpism is ultimately frustrated. And then when that kind of thing happens, the american populace will then, and i'll kind of have these clownish displays like january sixth. I'm always a little bit suspicious of this idea of the professional bourgeoisie in so far as it becomes a sort of replacement for a proxy for actual

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