He literally proposed a wealth cap for which a single person can hold, minimum wage before it was a thing (the minimum wage was first introduced in 1938 for those who did not know). So, he went against capitalism in a way which doesn’t even exist in China today. Even in China, there is no wealth cap or something close to it. For example, Bernie Sanders wants to increase taxes in order to provide more public services which means he is not going against capitalism but only increasing taxes. Why isn’t anyone doing this now and go against the establishment? Why doesn’t anyone try going out of the boundries of capitalism?
People who have good ideas and want to implement them and even run for office exist, today. But politics is a difficult game to win when you make more enemies than allies.
Also, the more immediate and impactful reform you advocate for, the less likely any of it is to succeed as it would take increasingly more money and labor to do. Even China does reforms as part of a 5 year plan. Even if, for example, the USA’s DNC got the reigns to start reforms like transitioning to green energy, codifying bodily autonomy in the constitution, and passing Universal Healthcare and Universal Basic Income: if they don’t get everything they promised passed before losing their supermajority then voters will blame them for not accomplishing it.
That’s why Bernie Sanders succeeded where so many have failed. He didn’t fight the system, he wants to fix every individual problem with it until eventually it stops being what it is.
The nature of good faith politics is that you compromise to find a solution that will be beneficial for all citizens and representatives. But ultimately, American politics is about elections, which at this point, are just spending competitions.
You may get elected once on the platform of fairly taxing the ultra wealthy… But few people, if anyone will work with you unless they think it will help their chances for the next election. Considering that the ultra wealthy account for 90+% of political contributions, your fighting an uphill battle. Everyone will stonewall you and try to sink your agenda in the hopes that some rich asshole will just dump 100 mil into the campaign fund of your opponent in the next election cycle, so that another lock and step traitor holds the office.
People have to realize that at this point, the candidates that are best for the people, will be villianized by every meeting stream media outlet. Keep in mind, this is different than when Trump started off in politics. He falsely repeated that claim so many times that gullible people actually thought the media was working against him.
That’s never been true. He’s always received special treatment, to his benefit at the hands of the oligarch owned MSM. But he’s made the claim so that he can poison the well, and delegitimize any similar claims from his opponents, even though they actually WILL be treated unfairly by the same shit bags raped kids with Trump in the old days, and gave money to his campaign
I think Elon Musk’s purchase and weaponization of Twitter, as well as how the CCP have been operating TikTok, are great examples of the impact wealth has on the USA’s politics, but I don’t believe it’s the end all factor in deciding outcomes. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be such a close and even split between the GOP and DNC, it would just all be GOP.
The billionaires won.
That’s why.
Well, to be fair…Bernie Sanders has proposed a 100% tax on everything over a billion dollars. That is effectively an individual wealth cap.
We’re looking at +3C at least by the end of the century, probably much sooner. Nobody smart enough to actually accomplish change in politics wants to spend the rest of our short ass lives renovating the Titanic after it’s already hit the iceberg
Citizens United and dark money PACs. As you can see from any given time Trump opens his mouth, people will belive any crazy lie so fast that an sincere politician without massive funding will be smeared with whatever the moneyed interests can dream up. To make sure money wins, they do stuff like remove polling places from poor areas so the lines get so long voters have to choose between getting to work and casting a ballot – IF they can even get to the distant polling place. Texas just did that again a month or two ago.
You turn the power to the Have-Nots
And then comes the shot.
Because they get shot
