Thread by @HadesShawn

🧵 — How the Super-Rich Control the U.S. Government [excerpted]:

“… almost all of the thousand-or-so individuals who control the U.S. Government are billionaires. They especially control international corporations. Those few people dominate both Parties.”

The U.S. Government tries to hide how obscenely top-end the nation’s wealth-distribution is; but one remarkably clear presentation of it (the U.S. private-wealth distribution) was the web-page from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System that

presented an “Overview” of “Distribution of Wealth” starting in “1989:Q3” and extending up till “2021:Q2”

bit.ly/3EysRGe

… Virtually all people who have the discretionary cash to be able to donate significantly to the politicians they favor are in the top fifth — the people who have 70.6% of all wealth. They dominate the nation’s political money.

Almost all of the virtually bribes that fill political campaign-chests in America come from the richest 20% of Americans — and the top 1% contain all of the ‘king-makers.” And if you’re in the bottom 80% of wealth-holders in the U.S., you’re not represented, at all, in

the U.S. Government. The top 1% have vastly more, than rest of the top 20%, available to them to donate to their favored politicians, because these people — the top-one-percenters — hold the corporate board seats, and select the corporate executives who hire the

congressional lobbyists to entertain and reward and hire the crucial congress-members so as to serve their corporations, and serve those top one-percenters who control all of those corporations. Included in these corporations are the ones that control all of the major, and most

of the minor, news-media and that thereby shape the ‘knowledge’ and thus the views that most of the voters (in each Party) hold.

America has around a thousand billionaires, and they have control over so much discretionary cash as to be able to get Congress to not pass any bill that these super-rich oppose, and to pass many of the legislative bills that those super-rich want to become law.

So, almost all of the thousand-or-so individuals who control the U.S. Government are billionaires. They especially control international corporations. Those few people dominate both Parties.

But they do it very much behind-the-scenes. In previous centuries, aristocrats were publicly known, by formal titles; but in today’s ‘democracies’, they are, instead, as hidden as they can be. They don’t want the public to know that the Government represents only them, because,

otherwise, the Government’s saying that this or that foreign ‘dictatorship’ that poses no real threat to the national security of one’s own country, should be regime-changed, would have the citizens wonder, instead, “Isn’t it our nation’s regime that

should be regime-changed first?” Any look at the ‘news’-media will make clear that they DON’T want THAT question to be in anybody’s mind. The message is instead always to regime-change the foreign leaders whom one’s own nation’s billionaires WANT to be regime-changed"...

globalresearch.ca/how-super-rich…

Therefore, the United States is a country ruled by criminals and warmongers. It's viewed by many others around the world as a terrorist country and I agree.

The US is sending billions more to Ukraine - AGAIN - and actively trying to trigger article 5 of the NATO treaty, even interfering and attacking their own allies to do so.

All of these billions being sent to #Ukraine is nothing more than a ploy to get close to Russia in order to establish a stronger foothold to go after China - their new economic competitor.

This always comes down to money/power - we NEED to #AbolishNATO, end US hegemony and support #BRICS instead. The world powers are shifting & people aren't tolerating the US imperialist bullying anymore - we just gotta hope we don't have to deal with a nuclear war in the process.