Geopolitical Economy Report19 Jul 2025

Rule by the rich: Western governments are oligarchies, not democracies

Western governments claim to be models of democracy, and demonize their geopolitical adversaries as "authoritarian", but empirical evidence shows that the USA and European countries are oligarchies dominated by economic elites and large corporations. Billionaire Donald Trump is the perfect symbol of this, but he's by no means the only one. Ben Norton explains. VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BONnmHRmp_M Topics 0:00 Narrative of Western "democracies" 0:26 (CLIP) Joe Biden on "democracy vs autocracy" 0:37 Western governments are oligarchies 1:54 Summary of oligarchic Western leaders 2:54 Scientific research shows USA is an oligarchy 4:29 US public opinion on healthcare 5:20 Money buys 80-90% of seats in US Congress 6:27 Citizens United ruling 7:21 Donald Trump: perfect symbol of US oligarchy 7:57 Robber barons 8:44 One Big Beautiful Bill: class war by the rich 9:49 Billionaires pay lower tax rate than most Americans 10:42 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent 11:35 Ex US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin 12:16 Steve Bannon worked for Goldman Sachs 12:58 US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick 13:07 Crypto was taken over by Wall Street 14:08 Trump is the symptom, not the cause 15:07 Biden promised nothing would change 16:07 Barack Obama: funded by Wall Street 17:53 Mitt Romney: servant of Wall Street 18:48 Super PACs 19:32 Bloomberg funded Biden's 2020 race 19:56 Billionaires funded Trump's 2024 race 20:35 Elon Musk donated $288 million for Trump 20:57 (CLIP) Elon Musk bought 2024 US election 21:11 World's richest man buys US politics 21:34 Wall Street wages war on Zohran Mamdani 22:46 Democratic Party sabotaged Bernie Sanders 24:34 UK Labour Party sabotaged Jeremy Corbyn 26:18 British spy agencies sabotaged Jeremy Corbyn 28:15 Symbol of UK oligarchy: Rishi Sunak 31:37 Neoliberal Keir Starmer: Tony Blair reincarnated 32:35 France's President of the rich: Emmanuel Macron 36:04 BlackRock's man in Germany: Friedrich Merz 37:40 Goldman Sachs' man in Italy: Mario Draghi 39:10 Goldman Sachs' man in Canada: Mark Carney 40:22 Summary of oligarchic Western leaders 41:35 Western governments are not democracies 42:45 Outro

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