This is an interesting article: The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.
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I wonder if that is supposed to be propaganda? I wonder, because I question why the picture of Tim Cook is with there with the others? It’s not as if it is some picture where they are all together. It is four separate pictures, and then they are arranged together. And, in the article, neither Apple nor Tim Apple are mentioned. So why is he in the picture except to maybe tarnish him by by association? As far as tech companies go, I consider Apple one of the better guys. They’re not selling your private information. They’re not censoring anybody. They make their devices secure so that they can’t break into them.
And, when is Apple a monopoly? Android has the majority share of the mobile device market and PCs are the majority share of the desktop market.. where’s the Apple monopoly?
I don’t know as much about Apple, and perhaps it is guilt by association. But even if we give Cook an exemption, there’s an important point here about the real threat of totalitarianism.
It is my understanding that Biden plans to implement policies that are to help small businesses from the ash heap that grew out of all proportion under Trump’s watch. Whether he is successful in that endeavor of course remains to be seen. As to Trump’s alleged attempt at a coup, I do recall that he threatened to employ the military with the end of “dominating” during the Floyd demonstrations. That, however, did not prove to be an easy task. People in high positions of the military have been well aware of potential danger from him. That is why he changed things around in the Pentagon in recent months. He also said that he would take his case of election fraud right after having appointed a Supreme Court Justice, not to mention the others that had already been appointed. It is not at all a far-fetched that he thought that they would scratch his back after he had scratched theirs. Finally, it is perhaps the “screeching” from the media and from a growing number of conservatives of integrity (e.g. the Lincoln Project, John Bolton, George Will, and quite a few others) that played some role in giving the nation a heads-up regarding his vulgar efforts at a power grab. I was glad to see that the US, both its institutions and its people, were strong enough to resist him. As for endorsements of the Biden/Harris ticket from big businesses, I suspect that they did not want to be associated with the utter disgrace that goes together with any public attachment to Trump and will probably become much worse as time goes on.
More can be said on these issues, but that’s enough for now. Now shall we get back to occupying Wall Street?
*a far-fetched hypothesis