Asklemmy

When I see Kyle Kulinsky or Vaush (can't remember which) saying that the US has officially turned from democracy into an oligarchy because Elon Musk is running the show at Capitol Hill, may I remind all Anglo-Americans that oligarchies don't tend to have a single guy pulling the strings. It's usually multiple people.

Elon Musk's wealth and therefore power right now is unprecedented in world history, not just in absolute numbers, but relative as well. So I'm concluding that not only is Elon Musk a dictator, he is the world's richest and therefore most powerful dictator in history bar none.

So the correct conclusion should have been that the US is not turning into an oligarchy, it's turning into a klepto-dictatorship, or perhaps more apt to say since he already is pulling all the strings, it already is a klepto-dictatorship.

And this is all happening under the guise that the US is merely a bit of a flawed democracy, so he is still getting free reign to do whatever he wants without its citizens even realizing that they're under a dictatorship and the most powerful one in history to boot.

I can go on about other things, like how tight and aggressive I see the US media and police control is, even compared to the worst of dictatorships, but I think I'll stick to the main point.

If someone says one person is pulling all the strings in your country, you live in a dictatorship, not a oligarchy.
And if he's the wealthiest person in history, then you live in the most tightly controlled dictatorship in history. And considerling how aloof everyone in the country is about it, no country has ever even come close to such a degree of totalitarianism. In all of history. Ever. And it's quickly getting worse.