The idea that our democratic republic is being transformed into an oligarchy that features an unholy alliance of Big Tech, the Deep State, and Politicians isn't news. However, I'd like to draw the attention of readers to a fine article on the subject--followed by a link to a pending court case in the US District Court of Massachusetts. Here's the article:
The New Majority Tyranny as the Old Oligarchic Despotism
We are witnessing a transformation from democratic into oligarchic rule, technologically enhanced and hidden under a democratic guise.
As you will see, this is a theme that we touched on most recently in Cultural Sovietism. In that post we looked at Alexis de Tocqueville's notion of "soft tyranny" in America. The authors of the linked article, too, look to de Tocqueville to understand what's going on in 21st century America. When de Tocqueville was writing his great Democracy in America, in the early middle part of the 19th century, "media" was the newspapers. Things are a bit different now, but the principles that de Tocqueville evoked remain highly relevant. Here's an excerpt--but go to the original which is quite a bit longer:
