WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

AMERICAN   OLIGARCHY

President Joe Biden gave his farewell address to the nation on the evening of January 15, 2025. It is a sad time in America. The next president, Donald Trump, will be inaugurated on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 at noon, EST.

"The president warned that American democracy was sliding into an "oligarchy" of tech billionaires. In short, an oligarchy is an elite few who control the government's actions.  By using the pointedly negative term "oligarchy," Biden equated this moment when the world's wealthiest men are feting President-elect Donald Trump with some of history's more brutal regimes."                                                     - Joe Borke, CBS News

These men Biden refers to are Meta (Facebook) Mark Zuckerberg, who is scheduled to cohost a Trump Inaugural reception with wealthy Republican donors next week. Amazon Prime's Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, reportedly the richest man in the world are also "reportedly" involved in the oligarchy take-over of our nation. 

The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his book "Politics" that "democracy is safer and more free from civil strife than oligarchy; for in oligarchie, two kinds of strife spring up, faction between different members of the oligarchy and also faction between the oligarchys and the people." 

                         

When we add Donald Trump to this list of "the richest of the rich," it isn't hard to see the calamity of the boiling pot! Trump may or may not be included in the "rich list" of those men, but he sure thinks - or wants us to think -  he is. What we do know for sure about Trump, however, is he is all in on moving us from a democracy to an authoritarian form of rule. We know that because he has told us that!

We're in for a very rough four years. Can we survive? Time - and the resolve of We the People - will answer that.