Strong democracy can stop an oligarchy | Letters to the editor

What Is An Oligarchy, And Is The United States Poised To Become One?

Benjamin T. Jones, CQUniversity Australia In his farewell address, outgoing US President Joe Biden warned “an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy”. The comment suggests that, under Donald Trump’s second term as president, it will be billionaires rather than the people who shape public policy. There is certainly some evidence Biden’s ominous caution should be ta…

Strong democracy can stop an oligarchy | Letters to the editor

President Joe Biden’s historic farewell speech warned us: American democracy is dying because of Trump’s oligarchy. Biden spoke on all the major networks in prime time, so it will appear on all social media worldwide — because the oligarchs own social media, and they’ll have to publish what he said. Pam Bondi, as the new U.S. Attorney General, is following the same familiar Trump playbook and will investigate, prosecute and jail at Trump’s whim.…

CHRONICLE. The arrival of Trump at the White House should not despair us: democratic forces remain powerful both in the United States and in the rest of the world, argues the economist in his column.

The potential rise of misallocated power could be disastrous, said US President Eisenhower, when he spoke of the relationship between the technology industry and the military in his country. Now, in his farewell as US president, Joe Biden warned of something that we should all take into account: “I want to warn the country about some things that worry me greatly. And that is the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few ultra-rich p…

Part 3: Democracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny - Teri Kanefield

As coincidence would have it, as I was reading Book VIII of The Republic and considering a blog post about the interplay of democracy and oligarchy when Biden gave a speech warning Americans of a rising oligarchy. I did not intend my blog post about The Republic to be so timely.

President Biden Uses Farewell Address to Warn of Rising Oligarchy, Threat to Democracy - News & Photo Features

In his 17-minute farewell address to the United States on Wednesday, January 15, President Joe Biden warned of a rising oligarchy and the “tech industrial complex”concentrating power in the hands of a few unaccountable individuals  threatening democracy, even as he only briefly highlighted the achievements of what has been a truly historic, transformative but totally unappreciated presidency. “That’s why in my farewell address tonight, I want to…