Steff Fox’s Reviews > United States of Oligarchy: How America's Wealthiest Ally with Dictators, Weaken the U.S., and Destroy Democracy > Status Update

I feel like I need to quote this entire section about the Civil War. It’s obvious, really, when you think about it—but we don’t usually present the motivations of those in the union as fighting the slave owners because they “drove down labor costs through mass enslavement.” It wasn’t about the wellbeing and rights of slaves; it was about poverty existing because of the slavers.

“…of how to prevent a teeming populace of simply voting to seize the wealthiest American’s assets. As James Madison worried, too much democracy could present turbulence and contention, leading to a system incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.”

I mean, Hasan Piker was right. The American military exists to protect the capital owners and their interests, not the American people.