Beware the Oligarchy | Robert Reich

I watched President Biden's farewell address and thought it was very important -- and oddly familiar.

[sassynana]

It was a great speech. Too bad that the people who most need to hear it, either won’t listen or will listen but not comprehend.

[jacobquackenbush]

Eisenhower is one of our best presidents. He was a great commander in chief and made it so black and white kids could go to the same college. He invented the interstate highway system and was just all around a great leader

[oxoxox]

thank you President Biden for a job well done. Joy would be on Bidens side 😊

[DanielMacris]

Jordan klepper did a funny piece about this on the Daily Show where he suggested Biden finish that speech with an unconditional pardon of Luigi Mangione.

[bnejijs]

President Biden's speech was spot on Jan 20th Trumps administration will be following the Putin playbook

[charleshermann]

I will always remember Joes speech just as much or more than Dwights! 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[MayrnaAdele]

So few listened to Eisenhower and few listen to Biden. We were warned decades ago and few did anything. I pray we take action now

[francismarcoux]

That explains why he was so against Musk.

[LastSifu]

What’s crazy to me is that most of the Republican voters are not particularly wealthy, so why are they voting for people who put the oligarchy above themselves?

[d.rabbitwhite]

People really should view or read the speeches of good presidents, and those of the bad ones. I love the speeches of JFK and of the real RFK.
When I heard that part of Biden's speech, I immediately thought of Eisenhower, and wondered if Biden used it as reference.

[wendymaclean]

Take heed, both presidents were speaking truths

[redwing]

Stay strong and keep your eyes open! This will backfire

[markstevens]

Only in America: If a rich Canadian tried telling other Canadians what to do, we'd tell him/her to piss off pretty fast. Somehow, in the US, wealth is somehow related to wisdom. Nothing could be further from the truth.

[ericherde]

Sen. Whitehouse was right. Why give that speech now, when it won’t do any good, instead of any time in the past four years, when he could have actually done anything about it? Just like Ike warning about the MIC after spending eight years strengthening it.

[dogsinolga]

Time to re-read The Iron Heel by Jack London!

[ianmuir]

When is America not at war??not very often

[hipoman]

I thought that asking military personnel to remember the oath they took to the constitution.

A GREAT CIVILIZATION IS NOT CONQUERED FROM WITHOUT UNTIL IT HAS DESTROYED ITSELF FROM WITHIN

A quote from W.DURANT

Look at past civilizations like Egypt, Romans, Aztecs etc.

Their enemies helped in any way they could. I’m sure our enemies will too.

[anthonyc]

Was there any mention of him supporting and condoning genocide and war crimes Robert ?

[ShinyAnvil]

By the time people realize that is “taking shape”, in fact the oligarchy has been already well established and well embedded.🤫

[corontsurara]

Did he say it's taking shape today? Today? Not like, a hundred years ago?