@snooze_cat

Right you are!

Oil and Gas Money to Congress

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?ind=e01&cycle=All&recipdetail=S

And their own portfolios as well!

Members of Congress Own Up to $93 Million in Fossil Fuel Stocks

As dire climate change projections mount, one in four members of Congress is invested in oil, gas, or coal interests.

https://prospect.org/power/members-of-congress-own-up-to-93-million-in-fossil-fuel-stocks/
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#RepresentativeDemocracyIsNeither

'Representative democracy' is an oxymoron that functions to maintain minority/oligarch rule.

We the people, will not find life, liberty and happiness until we wrest control of our lives from the self-serving hands of the rich.

#DirectDemocracy
#ParticipatoryDemocracy

#SystemFail

The Economic Situation for Millions of Americans Is Still Incredibly Dire
By Stephen Semler

exerpt:
"Broad measures of the country’s economy don’t necessarily reflect the economic conditions of the people living in it.
The data we have on those conditions reveal an ongoing humanitarian crisis — one that Democrats were complicit in making, but so far refuse to acknowledge."

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/joe-biden-pandemic-relief-economy-poverty?mc_cid=83bf5073aa&mc_eid=0c777b9f03

#RepresentativeDemocracyIsNeither

@gcblasing

#SystemFail

#Capitalism, with the support of sympathetic governments, externalize as many costs (of doing business) as they are permitted. It's the nature of the game!

Mass migration can be (directly and indirectly) an externalized cost.

Things will not change for the people or the planet, until we wrest control of our lives from the exploitive capitalists and their political class minions.

'Representative democracy' is an oxymoron that functions to maintain minority (Oligarch) rule.

#RepresentativeDemocracyIsNeither

We must #AbolishCapitalism and 'representative democracy' before it's too late!

If we are ever to gain life, liberty and happiness, we must establish a #DirectDemocracy/
#ParticipatoryDemocacy .

#PowerToThePeople

#SystemFail
#NoWarButClassWar

As horrifying as are the consequences of #CultureWar for oppressed groups, remember that its function is to #DivideAndConquer- so as to avoid all-out #ClassWar.

Regan's unholy alliance with Pat Robertson ushered in this era of #WhiteChristianNationalism upon which the oligarchs (by way of #RepresentativeDemocracy), misdirect and zap our limited energy and resources, and distract us from their theft of everything valuable; including planetary life.

#WakeUp people, before it's too late!

#RepresentativeDemocracyIsNeither

'Representative democracy' is an oxymoron that functions to maintain oligarch rule!

We the people, will not experience life, liberty and happiness until we wrest control of our lives from the ruling class!

#DirectDemocracy
#ParticipatoryDemocracy
#GetInvolved
#Organize