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Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming Nick Hanauer (Original Post)
Xipe Totec
Aug 2018
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ck4829
(35,039 posts)1. K&R
PSPS
(13,580 posts)2. He's been saying this for years (clip is 4 years old) and he knows it will never happen.
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)5. It will never happen until it happens. nt
Glorfindel
(9,720 posts)3. He's right, and I have a terrible confession to make.
Part of me (I hope a VERY small part) hopes that the plutocrats won't listen to Mr. Hanauer.
Turbineguy
(37,295 posts)4. One of the few (so it would seem) in his crowd
who knows of the existence of the French and Russian Revolutions.
Older Than I Look
(95 posts)6. He starts by comparing today with 1980. What happened in 1980?
EarnestPutz
(2,117 posts)7. Rich, but not that smart.
heard him speak in Spokane. He said that he didn't like
socialism because it entailed government ownership of
everything. Confronted with evidence to the contrary, he just doubled
down and repeated his claim. He has drunk the free market Kool-Ad.
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)8. You don't seem to be either, so he's one up on you nt