“Democracy is held captive, not just by money, but by ideas — the ideas that money buys.”
William Greider
“A multibillion-dollar bailout and Wall Street’s swift, subsequent reinstatement of gargantuan bonuses have inspired a narrative of parasitic bankers and other elites rigging the game for their own benefit. And this, in turn, has led to wider—and not unreasonable—fears that we are living in not merely a plutonomy, but a plutocracy, in which the rich display outsize political influence, narrowly self-interested motives, and a casual indifference to anyone outside their own rarefied economic bubble.”
Chrystia Freeland, The Rise of the New Global Elite, January 2011
“They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
Henry Wallace, 9 April 1944
“Our future could be one in which continued tumult feeds the looting of the financial system, and we talk more and more about exactly how our oligarchs became bandits and how the economy just can’t seem to get into gear. Recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.”
Simon Johnson, The Quiet Coup, May 2009
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Ironic, Henry Wallace shouting”Look over there look over there”.
Chrystia Freeland? Really?
A few things everybody should know about Chrystia Freeland:
1. Granddaughter of a Nazi, daughter of a Nazi sympathizer and propagandist
2. An Enemy of Free Speech, and a proponent of “personal asset seizures”
3. A “woke” left-leaning journalist with absolutely zero finance or business experience, yet gifted critical cabinet positions for no other reason than toxic “woke” culture
4. Was run over by the Trump administration like a minor speed bump in the renegotiation of NAFTA
5. Prone to crying when she does not get her way
6. Is now, somehow, the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
7. Is now precisely one of the “elites rigging the game for their own benefit” she refers to in her quote above!
Can’t make this stuff up – welcome to the horrors of Canukistan.