This is conspiracy leaning. Tulsi Gabbard on who runs the US.

[Buck Edwards]

Tulsi Gabbard doesn't make any sense. I don't believe this crap. She says that the Elite and military industrial complex is running the US. What is she talking about? She has no evidence to back up her claims. So her claims are conspiracy leaning and baseless. 

 

[Buck Edwards]

Curious to know what people think about this? I think she has zero due diligence. She is pushing some ego serving bias. That's what I can make of it. 

 

Edited August 31 by Buck Edwards

[What Am I]

I refer back to these comments that I made in a different thread from about a week ago. It seems like there may be a massive blind spot in this forum and on the left in general in terms of understanding the motivations of their political opponents.

 

Edited August 31 by What Am I

[aurum]

She's so full of it.

Whatever concerns you have over elite corruption will only get worse with a Trump administration. 

[Hojo]

Ive been listening for 1 minute 45 seconds and she has already seemed to have contradicted herself she says the president isnt in power barack obama is he was a president and was in power.

These people seem like Russian spies. they are saying entirely let Donald Trump do what he wants tear the whole system down while having no idea about anything to do with politics.

Edited September 1 by Hojo

[BlueOak]

Fascist Theme and Principles: Conspiracy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Further Reading: 
Purchasable Reseach Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1600910X.2023.2252192

Quote: 
Recent decades have seen are surgence in the use of conspiracy theories by populist and autocratic political figures. This has sat alongside a renewed interest in using insights from Frankfurt School thinkers to open critical perspectives on fascist uses of conspiracy theories. This paper builds on resurgent interest in the work of Franz Neumann, and directs attention to the political manipulation of alienation and anxiety. Building on Neumann’s insistence that a falsely concrete theory of history is in operation wherever conspiracy theories resonate politically, this paper argues for the neglected centrality of conspiracy thinking in nearly all instances of fascist politics. Conspiracy theories are a structural feature of fascism – a hypothesis that invites empirical testing to see if it might better fit the overall pattern. Neumann’s political critical theory also returns our attention to the possibility of an antifascist critical theory with the political at the centre of its concerns, opening lines of inquiry that complement Adorno’s insights into domination of the administered world and the culture industry.

Free Article:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/hot-thought/202201/fascism-thrives-misinformation

Quote:
Fascists use misinformation about history, identity, leaders, conspiracies, and destiny to gain and retain power.

Democracy requires replacing misinformation by real information by using critical thinking, motivational interviewing, and political action.

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Now my ego is curious:

Why is it a surprise to people that a country of millions has a large and well-established hierarchy of power that is shared by more than five people?

Would it be nice if we elected more of that hierarchy yes and no. It would lead to larger instability in the transitions but reflect society more. (All its downsides and upsides) Would it be nice if money was removed from power, yes but how your life functioned from the moment you got up in the morning to the moment you slept would reflect society more, all its extremes good and bad.

For this to be the case, large-scale resistance to larger changes, and more frequent changes would need to be addressed. No more moaning about the day-to-day details of your life, because you'll get larger shifts to deal with. I question how economies would function, but they do seem to change faster now, even if the people in them don't adapt as fast as they do.

Edited September 1 by BlueOak