of course, tyranny
is the handmaiden of the
moneyed interests
Adapted from the article, The real meaning of Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan by Robert Reich, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and a former US secretary of labor, in the Guardian (8/6/2026), where Secretary Reich writes:
Yet it’s big corporations and the billionaire class that are supporting Trump’s authoritarianism.
They’ve sucked up to Trump for corporate welfare, giant tax cuts, tariff exemptions, antitrust acquiescence and war contracts.
They’ve given Trump hundreds of millions for his inauguration, his ballroom, his 250th birthday, his Super Pac.
Trump’s tyranny and America’s affordability crisis are related.
When corporate America and Wall Street are unleashed – when the president of the United States has made an implicit deal with the moneyed interests to back him and his authoritarian regime in exchange for tax cuts, deregulation, monopolization and pay-to-play corruption – of course prices soar and wages stagnate.
Tyranny is the handmaiden of the moneyed interests.
The online Merriam-Webster defines tyranny as cruel and unfair treatment by people with power over others.
The online Merriam-Webster defines handmaiden as something whose essential function is to serve or assist
So lets try that last statement over again.
Cruel and unfair treatment by people with power over others is the essential function of the moneyed interests.
Or would it be …
Cruel and unfair treatment by people with power over others is essential to the function of the moneyed interests.
Or would it be …
To serve or assist the moneyed interests is the essential function of cruel and unfair treatment by people with power over others.
Any of the three by itself or all of them together at once works for me.
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