"It was a period where greedy, corrupt industrialists, bankers and politicians enjoyed extraordinary wealth and opulence at the expense of the working class. In fact, it was wealthy tycoons, not politicians, who inconspicuously held the most political power during the Gilded Age."
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/gilded-age
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I am a hard core conservative in near despair for my children and grandchildren over the ever-growing INVASION of our country of its southern border, by third world parasites who will help Democrat/Socialists complete the job of turning this great country, the greatest thus far created, into yet another Marxist Experiment.
But, I also read History and look for precedent, because, as Mark Twain said: History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
This is true because Human Nature, if it changes at all, does so very slowly, so slowly that any change is noticeable only over millennia.
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The invention of the Internet, which gave rise to these massively rich assholes in Silicon Valley, like Jeff Bezos, is comparable to what is known as the Gilded Age in America--the time in the late 19th Century when Robber Barons from the Northeast got so rich and so corrupt and owned so many politicians--that their wealth and their misuse of it became a threat to the country in general.
Even you poor folks educated in rotting Northern cities controlled by Democrats and their Marxist Teachers Unions for half a century have probably heard of Bezos-like turds----Rockefeller, Mellon., Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan.
Back then, they were called Robber Barons; today they are called Globalists.
Back then, it took a half crazy man like Theodore Roosevelt to rein them in. It was not a fight against Capitalism, it was a fight against the single bad side effect of Capitalism---if not controlled--and that is Greed and the love of power that Greed induces.
For his efforts, which helped to save Capitalism in this country not destroy it, Theodore Roosevelt is on Mount Rushmore with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
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Reining in turds like Bezos, and the politicians and newspapers he has bought like toys to serve his own corrupt agenda is in the interest of all Americans. And much like the French Yellow Jackets which include both Trumpie Nationalists and Socialists alike---temporarily united to fight fight a common enemy---massively wealthy Oligarchs--it is time for all Americans to unite and stop the Globalists Oligarchs who have hollowed out the middle class in this country and redistributed our wealth to places like China.
Now, the rankest fools out there, in my opinion, are people like Elizabeth Warren and Alexandra Ocacio- Cortez. They are so foolish they think Marxism is the answer, but it they would wise up just a little and realize, as Theodore Roosevelt did, that it is the Modern Day Robber Barons who are perverting Capitalism, I could agree with them for just a while.
Every American should realize that we are deep in the midst of another Gilded Age, and that something must be done about the Robber Barons of today and soon, or Marxism will take us all down.
Just my opinion.
https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/gilded-age
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I am a hard core conservative in near despair for my children and grandchildren over the ever-growing INVASION of our country of its southern border, by third world parasites who will help Democrat/Socialists complete the job of turning this great country, the greatest thus far created, into yet another Marxist Experiment.
But, I also read History and look for precedent, because, as Mark Twain said: History may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
This is true because Human Nature, if it changes at all, does so very slowly, so slowly that any change is noticeable only over millennia.
__________________________________
The invention of the Internet, which gave rise to these massively rich assholes in Silicon Valley, like Jeff Bezos, is comparable to what is known as the Gilded Age in America--the time in the late 19th Century when Robber Barons from the Northeast got so rich and so corrupt and owned so many politicians--that their wealth and their misuse of it became a threat to the country in general.
Even you poor folks educated in rotting Northern cities controlled by Democrats and their Marxist Teachers Unions for half a century have probably heard of Bezos-like turds----Rockefeller, Mellon., Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Morgan.
Back then, they were called Robber Barons; today they are called Globalists.
Back then, it took a half crazy man like Theodore Roosevelt to rein them in. It was not a fight against Capitalism, it was a fight against the single bad side effect of Capitalism---if not controlled--and that is Greed and the love of power that Greed induces.
For his efforts, which helped to save Capitalism in this country not destroy it, Theodore Roosevelt is on Mount Rushmore with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln.
________________
Reining in turds like Bezos, and the politicians and newspapers he has bought like toys to serve his own corrupt agenda is in the interest of all Americans. And much like the French Yellow Jackets which include both Trumpie Nationalists and Socialists alike---temporarily united to fight fight a common enemy---massively wealthy Oligarchs--it is time for all Americans to unite and stop the Globalists Oligarchs who have hollowed out the middle class in this country and redistributed our wealth to places like China.
Now, the rankest fools out there, in my opinion, are people like Elizabeth Warren and Alexandra Ocacio- Cortez. They are so foolish they think Marxism is the answer, but it they would wise up just a little and realize, as Theodore Roosevelt did, that it is the Modern Day Robber Barons who are perverting Capitalism, I could agree with them for just a while.
Every American should realize that we are deep in the midst of another Gilded Age, and that something must be done about the Robber Barons of today and soon, or Marxism will take us all down.
Just my opinion.
