Jeffrey Winters, a frequent Worldview guest and Professor and Director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies program at Northwestern University, joins the show to discuss oligarchy. On the heels of studies that indicate the United States increasingly becoming an oligarchic society as opposed to an egalitarian, democratic one, Winters compares the American political and economic system with that of Indonesia.
Donald Trump Jr., right, son of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Media Nusantara Citra (MNC) Group President and CEO Hary Tanoesoedibjo give thumb up sign as they pose for photographers during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019. U.S. President Trump’s son and his Indonesian business partner say a theme park that also features a Trump hotel and condos will no longer have Chinese financing.
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