This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom in the American way.

Tom Harbin here with you.

So in this article that I wrote,

I want to dig into this revenge of the billionaires.

Right now it's over a truth dig,

the website Truth Dig, where I'm asking could an oligarchy of the

morbidly rich basically overthrow our democracy or create a second civil war,

literally a second civil war,

where people are shooting each other

as the Atlantic is hypothesizing.

In my opinion, what's happening here is that we are now no longer a functioning

democracy. Now I think it's possible for us to get back to being a functioning

democracy but I don't think that we've been a genuine

functioning democracy since somewhere in the late 90s early 2000s.

Because you define a democracy as a country where the will of the people is enacted into law.

The policy of the government is what the people want.

That's the most simple explanation of democracy.

Aristotle basically said that a tyranny is where the government serves the tyrant, right? You know a kingdom is where the government serves the tyrant, right? You know, a kingdom is where the government serves

the king. An oligarchy is where the government serves the rich, the oligarchs. And a democracy is where government serves the people, the

Demos, which is Greek for people. We know from the 2014 study the Gillens and

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