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5:28Now PlayingThe billionaire class is currently scared of both the Republicans and Democrats, but for different reasons. So instead of putting their weight right now behind a party, they are trying to get their own members involved in the electoral process in order to push horrible centrist policies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains their motivations, fears, and how they are actually doing significant damage to themselves with their efforts.
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The former starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, his decision to run for president of the United States kind of underscores a bigger problem and it's also important to realize that Howard Schultz isn't just a narcissistic idiot, but that there's other forces that are pushing him to run for president of the United States and those other forces happen to be other millionaires and billionaires here in this country who are terrified right now of both sides of the political aisle. They're afraid of Democrats because Democrats want to raise their taxes. They don't like that. They don't like the thought of that. They don't like the thought of their hard earned money and I should have put quotes around hard earned money, but they don't like the thought of their money going to help poor people or going towards things like Medicare for all or better quality of public schools or teacher raises or infrastructure. They don't like that thought, but on the other side of the aisle, they're terrified of the fact that Republicans have no plan.
They don't know what they're doing. The government shutdown costs us billions upon billions of dollars and they're so volatile that they're causing the stock market to kind of go crazy, massive ups followed by massive downs. People lose a lot of money in those, especially the wealthy elite, so they can't trust the Republicans. They're terrified of the Democrats tax plan. So what do you do in that situation? Well, you find a billionaire centrist and hope that they can connect with the American public enough to get into the White House and then preserve what you've created and here is what the billionaire class in the United States has created. They have created a government that continues to deregulate the very businesses that are polluting and destroying not just the environment, but our own bodies. We have toxic chemicals in the drinking water of more than one third of American citizens and not just, you know, oh, these are toxic and it can make you say, these are cancer causing chemicals.
These are cancer causing chemicals. That bio acount accumulate, which means they just build up in your system until you're just constantly poisoning yourself. Even when you're not drinking that water. That's what's happening in the United States today, today, one third of us drinking that water every day and best part is we don't even know which one is the one third. We don't know who we are. We don't know if it's us, if it's them or who it is, one third of us just drinking it away without any knowledge of how deadly it is. That's the deregulatory deregulation that these millionaires and billionaires one in place because they profit off that they don't have to handle their toxic waste in a, you know, expensive way by properly disposing of it.
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