Voting Can't Break the Oligarchy. This Will.

The Jimmy Dore Show

Jimmy Dore argues that the U.S. political system is an oligarchy controlled by billionaires and corporate interests, rendering voting ineffe

Key takeaways

• The U.S. political system is rigged by an oligarchy that controls elections through manipulation and suppression.
• Voting alone cannot fix a system where government works against the working class.

Main topics

• Oligarchy and corporate control of U.S. politics
• Electoral fraud and election rigging

Notable quotes

"You can't vote your way out of tyranny."

"If the railroad workers didn't go to work for a week, the whole capitalism would collapse in the United States."

Conclusion

Jimmy Dore concludes that systemic change cannot come through elections or traditional political

Transcript preview

Speaker 1 (0:02) Hey, come see me September 18th, 19th in Rosemount, Illinois with Max Blumenthal. Also September 20th with Max Blumenthal in Chicago, Illinois. October 10th, new live celebrity panel show with video. in Los Angeles and Ventura Boulevard at the Starlight Cabaret. That's October 10th. And then we'll see you in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Toledo, and Cincinnati. That's in November. And I'll be giving a speech September 12th in New York, New York at the Turning the Tide 9-11 event. Go to JimmyDore.com for a link for tickets. Speaker 8 (0:47) and jumps the medium and hits them head on. It's the Jimmy Dore Show. Speaker 1 (0:54) They just cheated Dan Bilzerian. And obvious, they took away votes from him. It was an out and out. They just flipped votes. They just took votes away from him and gave it to Randy Fine. That happened. There are crazy explanations for that floating out there, but I don't buy them at all. And so to think that the same people who would plant a bomb on January 6th, meaning the establishment, the deep state, they would plant a bomb on January 6th. blame it on the left and then frame an autistic black kid for it when we know it was a cop that worked for the Capitol Police who now works for the CIA. Nice promotion after you plant the bomb for them. So those people who would do that, the people who would do a fake war that got. half a million if not millions of people killed in ukraine who would kill a million people in iran who uh i mean in iraq who would kill all who killed people all over the world that they wouldn't also Speaker 1 (1:59) rig an election and flip votes. What are you, nuts? Of course they would. The same people who would do a fake Russiagate thing that would gin up people and get them ready to call the... It's just, of course they would. And to think that they wouldn't is, you're a chump. Before 2020, Democrats used to be screaming at the top of their lungs about how bad the electronic voting machines are and how you could hack into them with a pencil. and that people can flip votes. And that's why they want electronic voting machines, because they're easier to hack. And that's why they don't want paper ballots, because it's harder to rig a system. They'll still do it. So if you think that we've never had a president that wasn't okayed by the deep state since John F. Kennedy, just to keep that. And Trump might have slipped in in 2016. And Brexit happened at the same time. And those are two things they didn't see coming. They miscalculated. And so they've made sure that will never happen again, that whoever gets to be president is up. pre-approved by the deep state. Donald Trump obviously was because he was saying one thing on his campaign trail and he completely flipped. And now he's doing exactly what Joe Biden, John McCain, and Lindsey Graham and George Bush would have done doing the exact thing, the exact same presidency that you would have got with any of those guys. Donald Trump is handing you. So they've got everybody's got their mind right. Everybody works for the oligarchy. The Congress and the president are middle managers to billionaire class and even worse. Speaker 1 (3:32) So, yeah, I forget what the question was now, but yeah, there's no way to vote our way out of Speaker 5 (3:37) it. Speaker 1 (3:37) It Speaker 5 (3:37) was tyranny. You can't vote your way out of tyranny. Speaker 1 (3:40) And I wanted to get into that with Marjorie. She had something came up. She was supposed to spend an hour with us. She can only spend 30 minutes. But I wanted to get into that talking about her third party. And so what's your idea and how are you going to keep big money influence out of your third party? Are you going to say no super PAC money, no billionaire money, no corporate money? How are you then going to compete? And that would be my question. And I'd like to hear what she says about that, because the only answer to this is that workers have to rise up, unite. Like I've said, if the railroad workers didn't go to work for a week, the whole the whole capitalism would collapse in the United States. Same thing with the port workers. Same thing with the truck drivers. And if they all did it in conjunction, we could shut down, put a hurt on the oligarchy, and then we'd have to tie that protest to a demand. And that demand would be no corporate. billionaire money in politics. You have public financing of elections. And then people go, oh, that costs a lot. It costs us trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions more to not publicly finance elections. So it's much cheaper and it's much better for democracy to keep. Super PAC. And then then some Joe Kent says, well, the Supreme Court says money is speech. Yes. So when we have our protest, we have that other demand that not only you get money out of politics, but you pass a constitutional amendment that says no money in politics. So then the Supreme Court can't go against the goddamn Constitution. They have to follow the Constitution. So we so they're the only it's the only way to fix this. We're at the end stage empire. I just showed you one hundred and eighty million people in America. The richest country in the world live paycheck to paycheck. Half the country, over half the country can't afford a thousand dollar emergency. A hundred million people are carrying medical debt. And what I like to say is, what do you call a system that takes the richest country in the world and renders 70 percent of its population living paycheck to paycheck and half of its population unable to afford a thousand dollar emergency and a hundred million of having medical debt? You call that a failed system. So we have to change the system and we can't. And that system is not going to let you vote your way into completely changing the system. And the way we change the system is you workers have to rise up. And that's the and if they don't, which I'm not optimistic that that will happen. Jimmy, that'll never happen. Yet you might be right. But I'm telling you, that's the only thing that is going to do it. And right now it's. I'll predict. I'm not great at predictions. But they're not... goofing around with BRICS, right? So BRICS is another power center. The United States is the reserve currency of the world, which is why we're allowed to run trillion dollar deficits. We print $2 trillion more a year than we take in taxes. And so we have now a $40 trillion debt, which makes your dollar worth less. And as soon as the dollar is not any longer the reserve. So if all the Gulf states stop selling oil in dollars, which looks like it might happen pretty soon. And now we- We have BRICS, which is Brazil, Speaker 4 (6:50) Russia, India, China, South Africa, and there's 11 other countries that want to sign on to BRICS, which means they're going to have their own currency. And so ours will no longer be the reserve currency of the world. And so that will collapse our economy because then we won't be able to print all this money. And then our money will become worthless. People's retirements will be worthless. And we will be in, this is what's called end-stage empire and late-stage capitalism. Look around. That's what we're in. If you go to places like China, they have futuristic cities. 90 % of the people in China own their own house. There's a whole generation of Americans who know they won't be able to afford a house. And so we have the rich and poor. We've we used to be this country of the strong middle class. One person working can have their wife, someone at home taking care of their kids, send their kids to school and college and have a summer home. That used to be that's all over. Now we're like a third world country. Drive around. Look around. You see what I'm saying. And the government is working against you. They keep passing legislation that hurts workers, that concentralizes power. Donald Trump just passed a thing this morning, as Marjorie Taylor Greene just told us, that doesn't allow meatpackers to use local farmers, ranchers to use local meatpacking to get and sell their meat locally. The big four meatpacking companies control everything. So if you control the food, you control the power. That's how you control a population. And that's what this is all about. And so the government is actually working against you. And there's no way to vote a government back into working for you. So what you have to have is what I've just described. You have to shut it down. You have to you have to put a hurt. You have to stop the economy, put a hurt on the oligarchs. You have to force a revolution. That's called a revolution. And if you want a nonviolent revolution, that's how you do it. And of course, the government will say, oh, those protesters are terrorists. And then they'll start shooting them. Possibly. That's a very big possibility. That's the only way to change it. And so we need a we need a revolution. America has more guns than than people. So if the government starts shooting us, maybe they'll think twice because there's more guns than people in the United States. And I'm sure that as soon as you get cops unwilling to do that and the military unwilling to shoot their own people, that's how you change a government. That's how you have a revolution. That's how that's the only way that this is going to work. And I'm all for Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Joe Canton, Thomas Massey starting a third party. I'm all for it. I would like to talk to all of them more about how they plan to keep big money influence out of their party, because that's what has to happen. And if they can do that, then I think they might have a chance. And the irony is Thomas Massey is hopefully correct me if I'm wrong on this, but he also believes that money is speech. That's a certain brand of libertarianism. And they don't think you should have to. You could constrain people spending money on politics or political races. And that ironically was the thing that got him. out of Congress was that they spent the Zionists and the and the AIPAC and the Israel lobby and the Jewish donors. They spent 30, 40 million dollars and they got rid of them. And so we all know that 95 percent of the races of congressional races in the United States, whoever spends the most money wins. That's not democracy. That's oligarchy. And so, again, the only way to fix this and I. Tyranny won't let you vote it out. I agree. This is the only way that can happen. Can it happen? It can. Is it likely? It's not likely. I know people are going to be pessimistic. I'm pessimistic on the future of America. There's no other way. This is not getting better. No, it's not. The United States, the economy is not going to start working for people. Health care costs are not going to come down. You are still going to go bankrupt when you want to get an education or if you want to or if you get sick. That's still going to happen. 100 million Americans carry medical debt for F's sake. So there's no getting there's and there's nobody in Congress or the presidency that's ever going to do anything about it. And, you know, Marjorie Taylor Greene says, well, how are you going to pay for Medicare for all? It would be a lot cheaper than this system we have. So people now pay $30,000 just for a premium. For a couple in my age in California, it's over $30,000. And that's before my out-of-pocket. That's before my deductibles. And that's before the stuff they won't cover that I have to cover. So I would be more than willing to pay $10,000 more in taxes to save $30,000 in insurance premiums. So that's how you pay for it. And it's easy. Everybody saves more money and everybody's covered and nobody ever goes bankrupt. It's not a, this isn't a Rubik's cube, but the propaganda. which is the mainstream media and the politicians, are all bought by the insurance companies. They're all bought by big pharma. So they're going to inundate you with propaganda to tell you we can't do it. How are we going to pay for it? Nobody ever says that when they spend $200 billion on a war with Iran. How are you going to pay for it? How are you going to pay for the war in Ukraine? How are you going to pay for the war? Nobody ever asks those questions. The money we've already spent in Iran could have wiped out everyone's medical debt in the United States. We already could have did that. They won't do that because the way the gears work is it doesn't work for the common man. It doesn't work for the average worker. The way the government, the system works is for the handful of billionaires and millionaires and corporations that own it. Remember, capital, meaning oligarchs and billionaires, sit above the government. The government doesn't tell them what to do. They tell the government what to do. The reason why China has 90 percent homeownership, nobody goes bankrupt when they get sick. And their cities are 10, 20, 30 years ahead of ours. They're futuristic and beautiful is because the government sits above capital. The government dictates to the businesses and the billionaires what happens, not the other way around. And the only way to fix that in the United States is if we all come together, realize that your neighbor is not your enemy. Your neighbor is suffering under the same oligarchy in the same exact way you are. And that is a psyop from the establishment and the media that they bought to keep us divided. And because if we're divided and we fight each other, they get to keep screwing us. The only thing they worry about is they don't care if you have health care. They don't care if you can afford an education. They don't care if you can afford a house. They don't care if you have infrastructure or roads. They don't care about any of that. As Michael Parenti taught us, the only thing the oligarchs actually care about is what you think. And that's why they do all the propaganda. That's why they buy the media. Now they bought an independent media also, which is obvious with the Charlie Kirk case. So the point is that if because why do they care what you think? Because if you think that your neighbor is not your enemy, but suffering the same way you are, then you're more likely to join with your neighbor to oppose them. That's the only thing they care about. So you've got to get the idea out of your head that your enemy is half the country or your enemy is your neighbor because they vote differently, that they are not. They are in the exact same situation you are. And we've got to come together. And the only way to come together to have a real revolution is if workers shut, just like the truckers did in Canada. That's why they freaked out so hard, because they were setting an example. Just like when the railroad workers were going to go on strike when Joe Biden was president, they immediately shut that down. They made it illegal. The Democrats. We're a party of the workers and unions. They shut that down and made it illegal for them to go on strike. Why? Because that, A, would have worked. They would have