Richard Wolff explains why America chose Trump as its Empire declines

[Uncle Joe]

9. When was the last time that we had a January 6th insurrection or a non-peaceful transfer of power?

I don't believe that the greatest threat to our national security in the short term to be China so much, but the constant transfer of wealth from our middle class to the oligarchs.

The Supreme Court with Citizens United make bribery all but legal.

In the 1990s Russia had a good shot at democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed but they focused more on vulture or dog eat dog capitalism which gave rise to their oligarchs which in turn gave rise to authoritarian Putin which in turn gave rise to the invasion of Ukraine.

The corporate media much of it owned by our own oligarchs gives more alarm at the possibility of social investment in the American People or "socialism" than threats to our democracy.

Today of our oligarchs; of which Nazi saluting Musk; alone spent a quarter of a billion dollars to get *rump elected and what are the first words out of *rump's mouth but to threaten our closest neighbors North and South, along with NATO ally Denmark over Greenland.

*rump is no different than Putin in this regard and our oligarchs aren't any different than Russia's.

I believe the greatest threat to United States national security is the stranglehold that national and global oligarchy pose.

Do we as a nation cherish democracy along with our bedrock 1st Amendment more than oligarchy, you would need to ask Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, but he can't answer anymore because Saudi oligarch and our apparent ally MBS had him all chopped up.

Logic and reason dictate that Oligarchy is structurally unsound for any nation.

I don't care what our political opponents argue for or against, the only thing that matters is what we stand for.