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These new plutocrats seem much scarier and creepier than the old ones.

Having these companies that know way more about us than any government or agency becoming involved in partisan politics should scare the pants off of everyone. Who better to conduct opposition research than Google? Who better to decide what fake news is vs real news, if you want to control the vote?

These guys haven't realized it yet, but they've crossed a big bright red line, changing their focus from being innovators to corporatists more interested in protecting their business models through political manuevering.

Part of me really does hope Trump turns out to be a trust busting Teddy Roosevelt.



I'm thinking more a McKinley / Mark Hannah hybrid. And Pence is certainly no Roosevelt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley




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