Are we likely to see voter backlash against the ultra-wealthy?
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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Capitalism doesn't hate the working class any more than a lion hates its prey.
Or any more than a drug dealer hates their mules.
I prefer Donkeys.
Throughout history the downfall of wealthy oligarchs has almost exclusively been because a few are never happy with what they have.
They push too far and eventually it goes past most people's breaking point.
Billions of years of evolution starts going to work after just a handful of consecutive missed meals. That's a lot stronger than the social contract, especially when dealing with resource hoarders who openly flaut the contract and say "you can't do anything about it".
A large enough mob can do something about almost anything...
because a few are never happy with what they have.
If they were capable of being happy with what they had they wouldn't be billionaires. If I had $100 million I sure as fuck wouldn't be coming in to work tomorrow.
It's a sickness and people shouldn't be glorifying the mentally ill.
This is what I'm hoping for. It just takes Player 2ing a couple of them to strike fear in all of them and simultaneously remind people that we hold the power.
There is no real downside to the unliving of a billionaire. Only upside.
Okay, so who's going to stop him? Anyone?
Oh please. More than half of Americans cheered having a billionaire in charge and while their faces were being eaten they're still going on about how they don't regret their vote.
Let them eat cake here.
"Could."
It sure looks like Americans do want rich people with political influence considering they just voted for a billionaire promising a cabinet of billionaires.
voter backlash
Aww, liberals still think they're going to fix this by voting. How cute!
What kind of bullshit level headline is that? The content states the obvious and that is all.
The boomerang in question:
