silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoDemocrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1358arrow-down111
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minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up78arrow-down2·1 day ago NYT “Eat the Rich Populism”: Angrily posting memes at a few select right-wing billionaires and a bunch of foreigners, particularly in China Actual “Eat the Rich Populism”: Nationalizing critical infrastructure that’s being horded by the billionaire class in the aggregate
minus-squareRaivoKulli@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·17 hours agoNationalizing? I hope you mean socializing
minus-squareHasturInYellow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 hours agoEasy. We nationalize the government too. That way it owns itself, and we own the government. No more billionaires in politics.
minus-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoPull up the societal ladders that allow people to become billionaires in the first place. Transferring a nations wealth from 5 pairs of hands to 10 pairs of hands once a generation is not a realistic long term governance
NYT “Eat the Rich Populism”: Angrily posting memes at a few select right-wing billionaires and a bunch of foreigners, particularly in China
Actual “Eat the Rich Populism”: Nationalizing critical infrastructure that’s being horded by the billionaire class in the aggregate
Nationalizing? I hope you mean socializing
Easy. We nationalize the government too. That way it owns itself, and we own the government. No more billionaires in politics.
Pull up the societal ladders that allow people to become billionaires in the first place. Transferring a nations wealth from 5 pairs of hands to 10 pairs of hands once a generation is not a realistic long term governance