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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The term “illegal immigration” is a misnomer. In the U.S., most immigration violations are considered civil, not criminal, offenses. tcavant.substack.com/p/capital-pu...

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Capital Punishment for Civil and Misdemeanor Immigration Violations and Public Protest; Pardons and Criminal Immunity for Loyalists

The Trump Regime's Version of "Law and Order"

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Approximately 90% of American media is controlled by 6 corporations. The U.S. ranks 64th out of 180 countries in the 2026 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) - an all-time low. When the index started in 2002, the U.S. ranked 17th.

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Rock and Roll Garage @rockandrollgarage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy 77 birthday to Bruce Springsteen! 📸Rob DeMartin

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Boss: an individual who embodies hear, spirit, and soul and shares it with the world! He and the E Street Band are the greatest of all time.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Racial hatred has always kept the U.S. from fulfilling its mission. Can the white working/middle class finally band together with minority populations to thwart the true oppressor, the fascist oligarchy, to finally secure racial and economic justice for all? tcavant.substack.com/p/excerpt-fr...

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Excerpt from my Book, "Damaged People: Narcissism and the Foundation of a Dysfunctional American Society"

From Chapter 6: "Damaged by Ignorance and Hate: Racism, Politics, and Anti-Intellectualism"

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“It is not the left that hates the country, let alone its people; it is the right, it is the financially affluent minority who would mortgage the future of that country, its people and all of its principles for the sake of their own continued privileges and power.” Tim Wise, “Under the Affluence”

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Our collective and community identity is actually anti-community. It is hyper-individualism as the essence of one’s group identity, and ultimately keeps us pitted against one another.” Tim Wise, “Under the Affluence” In such a society, empathy and compassion are considered liabilities.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The greatest accomplishment of the radical conservative movement was capturing the Supreme Court. This is end stage capitalism: democratic suicide-with several hundred uber wealthy families looting what’s left of the country they murdered and the Court they captured authorizing it from the bench.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The corporate media and corporate-owned politicians from both parties will do everything in their power to thwart progressives and maintain a status quo that lines their pockets and political coffers. The collective power of the people is the only force that can break the neoliberal machine.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A government that actually solves citizens’ problems and meets the needs of its people is the only way to defeat the growing tide of fascism. In this moment, progressivism is the only antidote to the fascism that’s been unleashed through decades of radically destructive neoliberal conservatism.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics isn’t believing that if the rich get richer, it’s good for the economy. It’s believing that if the poor get richer, it’s bad for the economy.” - Nick Hanauer, billionaire

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If not for the Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts for the morbidly rich and Bush/Trump wars they lied us into, we wouldn’t have national debt totaling more than $40 trillion (now larger than GDP under Trump fascism 2.0).

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The last 3 Democratic presidents have seen > 50 million jobs created during their terms; for the last 3 Republicans, the number is less than zero (net job losses).

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

…some economic statistics for any Republicans in your family that say they support the party for economic reasons: 1) 10 of past 11 recessions began under Republican presidents. 2) 5 times more jobs created in 2 years of Joe Biden’s presidency than the last 3 Republican presidents combined.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Prior to the Reagan Revolution, Republicans were more economically progressive than the modern, corporate-owned Democratic establishment.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

According to Republican President Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, Republicans today are all fools: “Only a handful of unreconstructed reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.”

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The top marginal income tax rate during Dwight Eisenhower’s - a Republican - administration was 91%. There was a time in America when taxing the rich to provide public services and a social safety net was acceptable by both parties.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

As the gilded regime continues to usher the top 1% into the “golden age of American greatness”, the national debt has topped $40 trillion - obviously a record high. The U.S. national debt has now surpassed the size of the economy for the first time since WWII.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The privatization movement - a major component of neoliberalism - is lauded by Republicans (and quietly supported by corporate-backed Dems), because it’s a form of kleptocracy. Tax dollars flow to corporations who return some of it to the political coffers of supportive politicians.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Why is the GOP hellbent on cancelling public education? An uneducated, ignorant populace freely concedes its civil and economic rights. It’s easily gaslit, and relies on demagoguery and propaganda as its favored sources of (dis)information.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

They’re overcome by greed. Sadly, wealth is worshipped in America. While most inherit their wealth, the perception seems to be that they are “successful” if they are wealthy.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Radical conservative neoliberalism in action: tax cuts for the rich and corporations, unfettered free trade, reductions in the social safety net, and corporate deregulation; the economic model driving public policy for almost 5 decades, with disastrous results. tcavant.substack.com/p/predatory-...

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Predatory (Neoliberal) Capitalism has led U.S. to Fascist Oligarchy

My book: Damaged People: Narcissism and the Foundation of a Dysfunctional American Society is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In 1980, there were no billionaires in the U.S. There are now almost 1,000. Almost 5 decades of neoliberal economic policies, which began under Reagan, have led to unprecedented income and wealth inequality and democratic rot. It’s past time to tax billionaires back out of existence.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The average billionaire pays an income tax rate of under 3 percent, and the majority of the largest corporations pay no income tax. tcavant.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

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The Case for a Wealth Tax

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Neoliberal corporate-owned Democratic “centrists” have no valid claim of support for the middle class. They’ve been instrumental, along with Republicans, in destroying it. The only way back to a vibrant middle class is the same way it was created - progressivism.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The progressive policies of FDR created the American middle class. The neoliberal economic policies of the Reagan era initiated its downfall. After 4 decades of the casino capitalistic neoliberal order, the middle class has been completely hollowed out and fascist oligarchy has replaced democracy.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Only in a society where the uber wealthy are altruistic, not greedy, could the neoliberal system of deregulation/privatization and trickle-down economics - corporate and wealthy tax cuts - actually work. Unfortunately, there is no such society.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

People are fed up with a system stacked against the working class. Both parties and their corporate puppeteers are upping the gaslighting to maintain a broken system that keeps their pockets full. Progressives are finally breaking the machine and will lead the way forward.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It’s twilight of the neoliberal economic and political order. Radical conservatism - under the guise of neoliberalism - has controlled the American political narrative for 50 years, with disastrous results for our country and democracy.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Only in an ass-backward political system is the term “progressive” considered extreme.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The term “moderate Democrat” can be used interchangeably with “corporate-owned Democrat”. There’s nothing moderate about opposing healthcare for all or taxing billionaires out of existence. In fact, that position is quite extreme in other developed democracies.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

“E pluribus unum” (Out of many one.), the traditional motto of the U.S.A., embodies wokeness. An informed, educated, and functional society providing a high quality of life for all depends on our collective wokeness. open.substack.com/pub/tcavant/...

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Wokeness is, and has always been, an honorable virtue.

Assert it proudly!

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Don’t continue to sell me the ruse of centrism. I’ve seen its disastrous effects on a once popular progressive party; one that ushered in the greatest middle class run in American history, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, civil and voting rights legislation, etc open.substack.com/pub/tcavant/...

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The Ruse of "Centrism"

The term “centrist” is a label many in in this country wear as a political badge of honor that shields them from being dubbed a political “radical” or “extremist”.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Shocker: Netanyahu seeks reelection in the Fall. Malignant narcissistic autocrats are not only driven by control, greed, power, and authority, they must also remain in power to shield themselves from criminal prosecution and accountability once out of office. They should never be granted power.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There is no evidence that can sway the hardliners into believing their master is a fraud, because their identity and sense of self-worth are inextricably tied to their narcissistic cult leader/grievance merchant. They both - cult leader and follower - share narcissistic wounds that will never heal.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Selective reasoning, driven by confirmation bias and resulting in cognitive dissonance and psychosis in more extreme cases: the behavior and psychological state of those in a cult, as evidenced by MAGA followers tcavant.substack.com/p/the-shared...

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The Shared Link Between Tyrants, Their Followers, and a Complicit Society: Narcissism

Without the support of narcissistic followers, a tyrant has no power.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Radical conservatism has been a scourge on our society and democracy. What’s deemed the “radical Left” in America isn’t radical at all in any other developed democracy. In those countries, conservatives and liberals agree on universal healthcare, a living wage, and union protections for workers.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The common good has been abandoned in favor of corporate profit, and Americans have been miseducated that what benefits corporate America somehow benefits a working-class household. It’s time to exchange the scourge of extreme capitalism for progressivism and build a vibrant democracy.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The 50-year political and economic experiment in neoliberalism has proven to be an abject failure. Politicians from both parties have sold the propaganda of unregulated free market corporate capitalism to the masses. Trickle-down economics has been proven a lie repeatedly.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Ironically, in America, a nation of immigrants has been taught to hate and fear immigrants.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Reminder: The “radical left’ in American politics is the center right in every other developed democracy worldwide. Decades of propaganda and tribalism has stupefied the country. American ignorance is staggering.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The greatest accomplishment of the radical conservative movement and its billionaire benefactors was capturing the Supreme Court. This is end stage capitalism: democratic suicide - with several hundred families looting what’s left of a country they murdered and the Court they captured allowing it

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Americans haven't witnessed the benefits of progressive policy implementation in 6 decades. As a democracy, we’ve overpromised and underdelivered. Progressives can build America back from the destructively radical neoliberalism that’s destroyed the working class.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

America’s underlying issue is that white (primarily rural) Americans have been fed the drug of whiteness for 250 years. While impoverished, they’ve been taught to worship the wealth of others and hate those with whom they have the most in common. They're cognitively dissonant, confused, and gaslit.

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Thomas Avant @tcavant.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A small number of wealthy narcissistic psychopaths continue to spawn trust fund narcissistic psychopaths that are pillaging the world’s wealth and resources and destroying life on the planet. They should all be sterilized for the welfare of society, living creatures, and the planet.

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