The media won't call Bezos, Gates, Soros, Buffett or any western oligarch by that name because it would be a tacit admission that we live in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
So an oligarch is just someone that's rich enough to influence the day-to-day lives of ordinary people? I don't feel like that definition is quite adequate, (nor am I suggesting it's the one you're giving) but it's the first-pass approximation I get from that list.
You could argue that Trump was an oligarch until he explicitly entered politics and was stripped of that power. He used to go on Oprah to talk politics and testify at Congressional hearings at the request of people like Chuck Schumer. Then he entered the arena and the mainstream position became "he used to be sane: what happened?"
Depends on what you mean by power. I think plenty of people acquire a lot of money and stay out of politics, except maybe to bribe in their business interest. They just don't make the news as much because they don't want to.
If you mean power as in "can get someone to build him a yacht" then yeah they have power.
Jimmy Dore calls Bezos and other super rich globalist assholes like Bill Gates oligarchs all the time, and given the amount of influence they have in government I think it's a fitting use of the term.
The media won't call Bezos, Gates, Soros, Buffett or any western oligarch by that name because it would be a tacit admission that we live in an oligarchy, not a democracy.
Democracy is just a polite way of saying Oligarchy with some mob rule.
When the billionaire in question is an enemy of the GAE then they are called an "oligarch".
If they are part of the GAE then they are just "job creators".
So an oligarch is just someone that's rich enough to influence the day-to-day lives of ordinary people? I don't feel like that definition is quite adequate, (nor am I suggesting it's the one you're giving) but it's the first-pass approximation I get from that list.
He is. Anyone who isn't zogged out would also consider him to be an oligarch. We're not MSM.
The US has been well within the definition of an oligarchy for decades.
Tucker has taken to calling American billionaires oligarchs and it amuses me every time.
You could argue that Trump was an oligarch until he explicitly entered politics and was stripped of that power. He used to go on Oprah to talk politics and testify at Congressional hearings at the request of people like Chuck Schumer. Then he entered the arena and the mainstream position became "he used to be sane: what happened?"
Depends on what you mean by power. I think plenty of people acquire a lot of money and stay out of politics, except maybe to bribe in their business interest. They just don't make the news as much because they don't want to.
If you mean power as in "can get someone to build him a yacht" then yeah they have power.
Yes.
Yes. And Bill Gates also.
America is an Oligarchy, yes.
Hwoever, unlike Russia our oligarchs are also "elected" into government positions that they conveniently cant be removed from for their incompetency.
yes
Jimmy Dore calls Bezos and other super rich globalist assholes like Bill Gates oligarchs all the time, and given the amount of influence they have in government I think it's a fitting use of the term.
No, he's an oligarch.