Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation

www.euronews.com Joe Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy

Biden warns of an ultra-wealthy ‘oligarchy’ threatening democracy in the United States as he delivers his farewell address.

US President Joe Biden used his farewell address to the nation to deliver stark warnings about an “oligarchy” of ultra-wealthy individuals and a “tech-industrial complex” that infringes on Americans’ rights and threatens the future of democracy in the nation.

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Shame he didn't do anything about it while he had the chance. What is it with us presidents and doing nothing about the important issues, and only bringing them up on their last day.
- If you fix a problem, you can't campaign on it.
  
  Sounds like the Big Pharma strategy
  
  Pretty much all of capitalism really.
- Just a heavily self propagandized corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it's a corporate dictatorship.
  No politician can topple the power of hundreds of corporations, and the armies they employ, backed by trillions of dollars in capital... no matter how hard they want to, even if they wanted to. All they can do is virtue signal.