The most important task now is for every civil servant and citizen to maintain a paper trail on what they can.
So that when this gets litigated, everyone who broke the law is convicted.
So that when this gets litigated, everyone who broke the law is convicted.
The civil servant should collect his pay as long as possible and do as little as possible.
Someone has always disagreed with something the government is doing. It has always been the end of democracy as we know it.
And yet, the future then and present now were formed by people who acted.
But no one following his orders has any immunity. They should keep that in mind.
As long as they commit their crimes in DC, they enjoy the ability to be fully pardoned. Outside of DC, you have to have a prosecutor with cohones.
Not quite "oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture." Yet quite a few of the others.
- stratified social classes; impoverished working class [1]; ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites; economy of state capitalism operated for the exclusive profit of the ruling class; collusion between the state and favored monopolies; profit is private property, while debts are the responsibility of the public treasury.
Maybe it's cynicism like noted in other commments, yet the linked chart from the NYT would say "it wasn't always this way" and its not my imagination that the situation has changed over the last 40 years.
[1] NYT, "Our Broken Economy", https://archive.is/ZFnAT