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(36,693 posts)november3rd
(1,113 posts)Include the stats on media ownership and consolidation and the picture becomes complete.
For one hundred years the oligarchs have been studying how to manipulate public opinion through mass media. They've gotten so good at it, people don't even know they're being manipulated.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)for allowing unprecedented concentration of media ownership in the hands of the tenth- and hundredth-percenters.
It's at his feet and NO ONE else's.
No more Bushes OR Clintons. No, nae, never.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Has almost nothing to do with the Telecom Act of 1996. That act allowed things like large media mergers, but that is only if an administration allows it. Notably Obama stopped the Comcast Time Warner merger.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)which was essentially abolished under the Reagan administration.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Who don't understand socialism, let alone oligarchy
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)This is why all thinking people would want Bernie! The rest I assume are content with whatever the 1% leave for them, or more likely, they are in denial and want to believe the propaganda because it seems easier than fighting for freedom and equality.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)TPP adds to it. Oh, well, just accept being a wage slave.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Lyric
(12,675 posts)The scant few liberal billionaires like George Soros, Stephen King, and Bill Gates will vote for whoever gets the Democratic nomination.
All the other billionaires (the vast majority of them, in fact) will vote for the Republican on the ticket.
So yes, absolutely--vote for the Democrat on the ticket. Because, ya know...voting for the Republican would be bad.
/obvious
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)They know full well they will get everything they want from her.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)It would be nice if life was that simple. The H. Clinton campaign is expecting to get campaign donations of between 1 and 2 billions of dollars. The billionaires like H. Clinton. The CEO of Goldman-Sachs told his execs that he was ok with either H. Clinton or Jeb Bush.
Sen Sanders won't take money from billionaires, but H. Clinton already has.