It's now 9/4/21 and a lot is different than it was just a year ago.
Most importantly and most obviously the rich are richer than ever.
Home prices are astronomical and have risen about 25% in Seattle last year alone and it appears that investment companies are doing most of the buying.
The war in Afghanistan is over and no one seems worried that all that military hardware is un-maintained and going to waste. Or is it? Maybe the objective of the companies that make this stuff is for the government to buy it. It doesn't matter if it's used or not.
And, as a small consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, government subsidies of a few hundred dollars per family have lifted about 45% of the poor out of poverty.
That last thing sounds good but what is happening overall if we step back and take a look. The rich are getting ever richer and stashing their money in real estate forcing the middle class out of the housing market but at least they won't be in abject poverty. One percent of the population will have everything and the rest of us will be easily controlled.
Doesn't sound like a democracy to me. More like an oligarchy. Let's hope it's a somewhat civil oligarchy like the British in the 19th century and not like the corrupt Russian oligarchy.
The dictionary offers these synonyms for oligarchy ... autocracy, oppression, domination, cruelty, authoritarianism, despotism, totalitarianism, coercion, terrorism, absolutism, severity, monocracy, fascism, totality, imperiousness, high-handedness, unreasonableness, reign of terror, peremptoriness.
