The super-rich are destroying democracy

Democracy… what a concept!

Yup, one person, one vote! What could be more egalitarian than that?

If you’re one of those unfortunate Americans toiling at the official minimum wage, you’re going to toil well into your eighties before you’ve made a million bucks.

A billionaire, on the other hand, has made that million at least a thousand times over.

Now, it’s not my place to say that’s not right. Maybe that billionaire is a thousand times smarter than the schmuck drawing down the min wage. Maybe that billionaire works a thousand times harder… who knows?

But I think we can all agree that this situation threatens democracy. One person, one vote?…

To my way of thinking, the Citizens United case of 2010 put the final nail in the coffin of America’s “democracy.” True, it may have been in trouble before, but it’s long gone by now.

Here’s a little nugget from the Washington Post; Eleven donors have plowed a billion dollars into superPACS…

And here’s a rundown of what billionaires spent on the 2018 midterms.

And, according to the New York Times, the Koch brothers political network had almost 900 millions to spread around for the 2016 presidential election.

Ya, you’ll get the occasional aberration, like Tom Steyer talking about a $15 min wage, or Richard Uihlein tossing some spare change to AOC’s campaign, but that doesn’t change the fact that billionaires look out for their own interests first.

Plutocracy is not democracy.