silence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agoDemocrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.www.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1322
arrow-up1322external-linkDemocrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.www.nytimes.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days agomessage-square43linkfedilink
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67·21 days 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-squareTronBronson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·21 days 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
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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
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