This is what an oligarchy looks like:

[Playinghardball]

[Angry Dragon]

1. The wealthy want to own the world

[november3rd]

2. Media Ownership

Include the stats on media ownership and consolidation and the picture becomes complete.

For one hundred years the oligarchs have been studying how to manipulate public opinion through mass media. They've gotten so good at it, people don't even know they're being manipulated.

[hifiguy]

6. Thank Bill Clinton and the Telecom Act he championed and signed

for allowing unprecedented concentration of media ownership in the hands of the tenth- and hundredth-percenters.

It's at his feet and NO ONE else's.

No more Bushes OR Clintons. No, nae, never.

[joshcryer]

14. This is due to Citizens United and Oligarchy United.

Has almost nothing to do with the Telecom Act of 1996. That act allowed things like large media mergers, but that is only if an administration allows it. Notably Obama stopped the Comcast Time Warner merger.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Don't forget the Fairness Doctrine

which was essentially abolished under the Reagan administration.

[Divernan]

3. This provides an excellent definition for my clueless FB friends

Who don't understand socialism, let alone oligarchy

[Dustlawyer]

4. This is why Bernie!!!

This is why all thinking people would want Bernie! The rest I assume are content with whatever the 1% leave for them, or more likely, they are in denial and want to believe the propaganda because it seems easier than fighting for freedom and equality.

[99th_Monkey]

5. And now the TPP is passing, thanks to 13 Senate DINO's, codifying the US Oligarchy into law. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

7. K & R x 1,000,000,000,000 and we must end their game and create a system that works for all

[snagglepuss]

8. k and r

[raven mad]

9. It didn't start with NAFTA, but it sure got a leg up there.

TPP adds to it. Oh, well, just accept being a wage slave.

[rhett o rick]

10. Support the people's candidate instead of the billionaires candidate. nm

[Lyric]

11. The billionaires' candidate is the Republican.

The scant few liberal billionaires like George Soros, Stephen King, and Bill Gates will vote for whoever gets the Democratic nomination.

All the other billionaires (the vast majority of them, in fact) will vote for the Republican on the ticket.

So yes, absolutely--vote for the Democrat on the ticket. Because, ya know...voting for the Republican would be bad.

/obvious

[Doctor_J]

12. bullshit. The billionaires are backing Hillary

They know full well they will get everything they want from her.

[rhett o rick]

13. You try to make your life too simple. Democrats good and Republicons bad.

It would be nice if life was that simple. The H. Clinton campaign is expecting to get campaign donations of between 1 and 2 billions of dollars. The billionaires like H. Clinton. The CEO of Goldman-Sachs told his execs that he was ok with either H. Clinton or Jeb Bush.

Sen Sanders won't take money from billionaires, but H. Clinton already has.

[davidpdx]

16. ....