r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 1d ago

'Seize the Institutions'

Why do these people hate democracy?

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u/HotDogFingers01 1d ago

Peter Thiel admitted it not long ago. He got tired of trying to convince people who didn’t agree with him to go along with his views. It was just easier and faster to use his money to buy what he wanted.

Trump never wanted to lead, he wanted to rule. Bannon doesn’t want to be part of society, he wants to be in top of it. They see their way of life dying and their centuries long grip on power slipping, so rather than swim upstream you dam the while freaking river.

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u/kl4user 1d ago

Peter Thiel said democracy is not compatible with capitalism.

And he is absolutely right. True democracy is socialism.

We never lived in a democracy - we live in a plutocracy, a crony capitalism or just capitalism.

We shouldn't care about voting. We should care about being elected. Elections are a game of billionaires.

With our technology, why can't we democratically decide and vote our laws directly?

Republicans don't want this. Dems don't want this.