False equivalence. Show proof of democratic oligarchy.
I do see billions in tax dollars going to republican oligarchs associated with Big Oil, Big Farm, Big Pharma, MIC, etc.
Obama got elected promising to reform health care and with a super-majority of democrats in both the House and the Senate. That means that the republicans couldn't stop these reforms even if they tried.
So one of the first things Obama did after taking the oath of office was to set about fulfilling that promise, and reforming health care. He wanted real reform, too, and urged the Congress to come up with a national single payer plan like most of the other first-world nation already have. And there were and are many very good working models from which to take ideas. But sadly, the democratic super-majority in the House suddenly and inexplicably fell into a confused stupor, and just couldn't seem to come with any meaningful reforms except for a 25 year old republican plan forcing everyone to buy health insurance, and a clause forbidding them to drop coverage for preexisting illnesses (which Obama had to fight them for). Seems the insurance, medical, and pharma lobbyists had been jangling the phones and pounding on doors and making quite the fuss over any proposed changes to their profit margins, and strangely enough ALL THOSE DEMOCRATS suddenly lost the ability to come up with ANY PLAN AT ALL except for that 25 year old republican plan to make everyone buy health insurance. Which the republicans immediately dubbed "Obamacare" and screamed to high heaven that it was a violation of every human right ever spoken, the Geneva Convention, and the 11th Commandment (even though it was their proposal, originally). And so all Obama managed to reform was the preexisting condition escape clause, and expanding Medicaid a little more for the poor.And to get that he had to fight his own democratic super-majority tooth and nail
Not long before this happened, an outrageous new law was proposed by the republicans in the Congress that U.S. citizens be denied the right to buy their drugs from foreign drug companies at much cheaper prices than the U.S. drug companies sell them for. Basically, the law was intended to force U.S. citizens to be bilked by the U.S. drug companies by creating a government mandated monopoly. And guess who slunk into the House in the middle of the night to vote for this obscene law? Sure, it was the republicans. They sponsored this atrocious bill. But it was all those democrats, too. Nearly every single one of them. And why? Because they're ALL ON THE TAKE. They all got the call from their lobbyists telling them how they're going to vote, or else (or else no more big campaign contributions, no more paid family vacation/junkets, no more paid "motivational speeches", no more cushy do-nothing jobs for their family members, no more high-paying lobbying jobs waiting for them when they leave office...). And they all did as they were told.
That's just a couple out of MANY similar instances where the democrats took the bribes and did the dirty deeds. Just like their republican cohorts.
