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(28,136 posts) Fri Dec 16, 2016, 12:42 AM Dec 2016

Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists

"Most of Trump’s appointees to top cabinet positions are a mix of incompetent and mean spirited billionaires and generals. This alliance of powerful representatives of predatory financial capitalists and right-wing supporters of the immense military — industrial-surveillance complex makes clear Trump’s support of the worst elements of neoliberalism — a war on education, support for austerity policies and an attack on social provisions, the poor, workers, unions and the most vulnerable. "

http://billmoyers.com/story/trumps-second-gilded-age-overcoming-rule-billionaires-militarists/

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