Of course the history books would also comment that the modern buildup of American Supertech is largely thanks to the Democrats—envisioned and kickstarted by Clinton and Gore—with policies that survived about 20 years, through most of Obama’s administration. (The press wasn’t calling them oligarchs then LOL.)
These history books are still being written, and before believing the toothpaste salesmen in the liberal media (or their equally disgusting competitors on the right) about who the bad actors are, a little more time and thought might be useful.
Consider for a moment the proposition that American politicians and news media have sold their souls by peddling partisanship, then put all this in the context of today’s geopolitics and ask yourself what happens “over there” during the coming decade if Americans are consumed with hating each other, egged on by the bobblehead media that feeds red meat to it’s segmented lemmings.
If you’d prefer a world in which China/Russia/NK/Iran run amok for a decade while America dicks around bitching about oligarchs you just might get it.
The vile on the both left and right these days is leaving Xi and Putin laughing so hard then can barely breathe. Don’t be part of it.
What the hell are you talking about?
The discussion is about oligarchs directly and openly grabbing government power.
This is not an event happening early in the emergence of oligarchy but late, if at all, and puts the developments on the timeline of both parties´ administrations with Reagan priming the pump.
To make that clear: Oligarchs are agnostic when it comes to parties and will happily align themselves with whoever is closest to the reins of power and is willing to do their bidding.
Oligarchs not only have no party loyalty but also do not have country loyalty.
Internally, that gives rise to the uniparty conspiracy theory which oligarchs enthusiastically support because it weakens confidence in government and instills a sense of powerlessness and fatalism into public sentiment.
That uniparty conspiracy theory obviously serves oligarchs well because it allows them to explain away their flip-flopping on party support and beholdenness to foreign interests - because if you convince people that their own country is a shithole in decline, how are they going to get excited about pandering to foreign interests originating in countries that are no better but also not worse than their own.
Next thing you know, you got a movement of people taking a shit on America and singing the praises of Putin.
As much as the uniparty conspiracy theory serves the oligarchs, it is entirely different for the middle class, because despite the responsibility centrists have for letting oligarchic power grow, the reactionary right wing policies are positively toxic to the middle class.
So yeah, the oligarchs would love us to believe the uniparty conspiracy theory but believing it is diametrically opposed to middle class interests.
Here is the link to the "uniparty" wiki page - it's so fucking stupid (paging MTG) that it's not worth spending much time on it (and Meme-Ron has done a good job as the MMM Uniparty One-Trick-Mascot; but I still recommend to look at it to see the stupidity of it for yourself)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniparty#:~:text=Uniparty%20is%20used%20as%20a,function%20as%20a%20single%20party.
This is far more interesting and relevant:
Oligarchy Illustrated Edition
by Jeffrey A. Winters
For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth, an idea muddled by elite theory early in the twentieth century. The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines them, empowers them, and inherently exposes them to threats. The existential motive of all oligarchs is wealth defense. How they respond varies with the threats they confront, including how directly involved they are in supplying the coercion underlying all property claims, and whether they act separately or collectively. These variations yield four types of oligarchy: warring, ruling, sultanistic, and civil. Oligarchy is not displaced by democracy but rather is fused with it. Moreover, the rule of law problem in many societies is a matter of taming oligarchs. Cases studied in this book include the United States, ancient Athens and Rome, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, medieval Venice and Siena, mafia commissions in the United States and Italy, feuding Appalachian families, and early chiefs cum oligarchs dating from 2300 BCE.https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521182980?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title
