General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas Trump caused you to look at the power structure in the world differently?
The role of billionaires and oligarchs in politics, wars, economies, stock markets, supply chains, etc?
They are ruling the world with a stronger hand than ever in history?
When they play the fiddle, everybody does the dance.
They have taken over large parts of the "democratic" world. They are autocratic, and dictatorial, in their means.
The people have much less power today than they did just a couple of decades ago.
The powerful know they are powerful and are using it to their advantage. They are robbing the earth of its resources in their race to see how many can become "trillionaires".
Is that where we are today?
OLDMDDEM
(3,320 posts)The Madcap
(2,117 posts)are a recipe for disaster. They will end up making the Soviet Union look good by comparison.
rampartd
(5,395 posts)Johonny
(26,784 posts)Frightening people at their soul.
bucolic_frolic
(56,202 posts)They tried this in 1939. Global Financial Businessmen were on the same page, but they backed the wrong horse, and many corporations were not global. Today the conditions are prime.
Biophilic
(6,753 posts)Im scared, angry, depressed, and just plain disappointed in my country. It sure doesnt feel good.
FullySupportDems
(517 posts)I didn't realize how awful, stupid and gullible so many people would be. I look at my fellow citizens differently now. And also I never realized how lethal casual bigotry and stupidity could can be, not really, not like I do now. I never thought our country would be doing what it is doing now, and sadly I think part of that is my own ignorance of what we've been doing all along.
I'm sorry, I think all that doesn't answer the questions being asked.
Blues Heron
(9,103 posts)yardwork
(69,845 posts)I expected most of what TrumpCo is doing. I'm surprised at how poorly they're doing most of it. I realize now that I thought the phrase "evil genius" was true, but now I see that most of the evil ones are bumbling around. They use their wealth and power to get more wealth and power and the impact on everyone else is horrible, but it's definitely not an elegant seamless takeover of the world. It's a messy wasteful takeover.
One example is our attack on Iraq. TrumpCo made a ton of money from this ridiculous foray but everything else about it is a shambles.
kentuck
(115,873 posts)They know what they want. They just don't know how to go about getting it. They leave a mess behind.
betsuni
(29,402 posts)yardwork
(69,845 posts)But they bicker among themselves, double cross each other, and generally behave like the narcissistic fools they are.
kentuck
(115,873 posts)"Behind every great fortune is a great crime".
betsuni
(29,402 posts)and they'll bicker and double cross and lose the plot because they're not all the same.
kentuck
(115,873 posts)...and the poor suckers will die for their cause.
EdmondDantes_
(2,241 posts)Sometimes it takes the form of endless greed, sometimes racism, fear mongering about some other. Some honestly think they are best equipped to rule but get lost in that delusion.
Many of them flame out without getting noticed. But some manage to find holes in their society to exploit. Hitler wasn't the first guy to blame things on Jewish people, or foreigners, he wasn't the last. But at the time Germany was primed for someone like Hitler. Maybe someone else would have focused more on France/England or Russia, or fell into his madness sooner, but maybe it would have been a general who wasn't as ambitious as Hitler and not flamed out as relatively quickly (obviously not soon enough).
BannonsLiver
(20,965 posts)Ill just say Ive never understood the appeal of wearing Crocs. Also, I like mustard.
sinkingfeeling
(58,198 posts)terrifying. I read the report about Jared's taking over the Albanian island and I just wanted to cry. If they could just use their money to help others, what a wonderful world humanity could have.