Tootfinder

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of
oligarchy-facilitating rule
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Epstein and Oligarchy -- Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio (Weekend Reading)
https://www.weekendreading.net/p/epstein-and-oligarchy
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p152#a251119p152

In the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House,
independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders spent months crisscrossing the nation rallying huge crowds in red and blue states during his Fighting Oligarchy tour.
His new book,
“Fight Oligarchy,” is an extension of those rallies and also serves as a blueprint for how everyday Americans can push back against the deep-pocketed forces shaping politics today.
But at 84 years old, the two-time presidential candidate …

Bernie Sanders on Beating Authoritarianism, Billionaires & AOC
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 10/20/2025 · 1h 1m

I've been railing about the need to restructure SCOTUS for rather a while now. (I've added a couple of URLs after the Guardian opinion link.)
Here is an opinion piece that says something similar.
It adds something that I missed - that SCOTUS and Congress are filled with people who think that if El Cheato goes away that his mess will also go away.
I don't think so. The maga-klan is too deeply embedded into our judiciary and administrative agencies. It's go…

Sen. Bernie Sanders - Harnessing Energy From "No Kings" Rally to "Fight Oligarchy" | The Daily Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUn1A0sEDrc

Bari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy (Margaret Sullivan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p22#a251224p22

"The ultra-wealthy no longer wait in lines, navigate public institutions, or share community space with ordinary Americans. And that’s the real danger: once the richest begin living outside the civic sphere, they stop caring whether the rest of society works at all. A nation where the wealthy secede into a private realm is a nation confronting oligarchy."
**This unspoken threat is hastening America's downfall — and it's not MAGA** - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/ZBnaK#selection-845.71-863.167

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
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