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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them (theonion.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The way I see it is they've got more incentive as rational actors to promote security and equality. What is interfering with that is irrational primal instincts that make some of them want to hoard wealth and attack those who are physically or culturally different from them.

More billionaires supported a candidate who promised to tax their unrealized gains than they sided with Trump. Trumps billionaires just happened to capture enough social media to tilt things his way.