[dolni]

Respectfully, I think your take that this "has nothing to do with the ultra wealthy" is exceptionally naive.

We know with absolute certainty that much worse atrocities happen in places like Russia and China. What makes you think that the US is immune to that kind of thing?

We don't have quite the same problems and they aren't so obvious.

But every once in a while, the curtain comes down and you get to see how things really are.

Wide-scale domestic surveillance. The US government chasing so hard after people like Snowden and Assange. Bernie Sanders being completely ignored by the Democratic Party in 2016. Epstein being mysteriously killed.

The US does not openly speak about its corruption, but there is plenty of it anyway.

While we are a democratic country don't forget that democracy is something you fight for every day. And if you look around, when is the last time there was a serious fight put up for democracy?

[ajkjk]

I'm not saying there aren't, like, various propaganda machines meddling with society. Just that people underestimate the power of dynamical systems to do things without coordinated action. Ideas coordinate on their own with requiring some sort of agent to be "pulling the strings".

> don't forget that democracy is something you fight for every day.

No it's not? Democracy is a steady state that we mostly ignore every day. Over time it tends off course and when it gets too astray we correct it.