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You can't elect an oligarchy. They have a four year term, and almost no one in the incoming administration has a long-term career in government. It's literally the opposite of an oligarchy, it's a republic.

Also, United Healthcare has no place in the incoming administration. Bobby Kennedy Jr is Trump's selection for Health Secretary, if anything is a spurn to the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance industry.

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You might benefit from a closer examination of what an oligarchy is and how the US political system functions in the context of campaign finance, lobbyist groups involvement with drafting legislation, and the conveyor between the legislative branch and private industry jobs. If you have the constitution for rummaging through tweedy academic thickets you might also consider reviewing the Princeton papers that deconstruct the US political apparatus and indicate pretty vividly that the US is, in fact, an oligarchy. Lastly, given the combination of wealth inequality in the US and the Supreme Court rulings on money == speech and political influence == speech it's pretty trivial to conclude that money == political influence and the top 0.1% has more of both. To be clear, this is an indictment of both major political parties in the US, as they operate functionally identical campaign finance strategies.

Are you referring to the Panama Papers? I searched for Princeton Papers but didn't find anything similar to you comment.

I am not, let me try to find you a link. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

Growing up in a very conservative household, I was always told to look at what people do, not at what they say all my childhood. Now those same people are ranting about what Trump and his cronies say, completely ignoring what they do. It'll always amaze me how easy it was to convince people to ignore actions, and only pay attention to words.

RFK will only be able to propose plans within what Trump will allow; the overlap between their ideas is only bad things. If he tries to go any further he'll just end up like Tom Price did, and resign in six months.

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