Why do billionaires keep presenting themselves as America's great new hope?

Because our society deifies them. The real religion in this country is money. People worship the dollar and praise and reward those who have the most of them regardless how they’re earned.

Our president filed bankruptcy multiple times, robbing the contractors that worked for him in the process, and people call him a “smart business man” and made him president.

Bezos pitted cities all over the country against each other, wasting millions of dollars that could have gone to schools, infrastructure, fucking anything else, just to have more leverage over the cities he already knew he was going to go. No one gives a shit.

Amazon, Wal-Mart, Cheveron, Delta, General Motors, and more made billions and paid zero taxes this year, but no one is mad at them, we want to be like them.

Our society doesn’t think money is the problem, we think it’s the solution so people with the most of it have the solutions to our problems.

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