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The New Book by author Robert Cain
Democracy for Sale pulls back the curtain on a not-so-secret conspiracy: the slow but deliberate takeover of American democracy by corporate overlords and the billionaire class. It’s the story of how the American Dream morphed into an economic nightmare for the many while becoming a never-ending luxury vacation for the few. The book makes it clear—if a foreign enemy had done this to us, we’d be in the streets with pitchforks. But since it’s been done by our own homegrown elites in tailored suits, most people either shrug or, worse, cheer it on.
The author traces this mess back to the Founding Fathers, who, believe it or not, weren’t huge fans of corporations running the show. Jefferson and Madison saw them as a dangerous aristocracy in the making, and Andrew Jackson practically went to war with the big banks of his time. But fast forward a couple of centuries, and here we are—living in a country where corporations are people (except when it comes to going to jail), billionaires fund politicians like they’re sports teams, and “trickle-down economics” has turned into a golden shower for the working class.
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