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@Dave_Goldsmith @kahomono

This has been cultivated for many decades, with the slow takeover of SCOTUS, Ronald Reagan / Thatcher destruction of the welfare state, the Koch Brothers funding of the Tea Party extremists, Rupert Murdoch propaganda machine relentlessly changing "hearts and minds", the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act, Fairness Doctrine...
This didn't happen overnight. The Tech Robber Barons are just the latest instalment of the Neoliberal path we've been taking in the destruction of democracy, since 1979.
Bernie Sanders was the last chance we had in avoiding it and it's gone.
There will be a large scale war (civil or global) in the next 5 to 10 years, to release all the social upheaval boiling beneath the surface.