Friday, September 5, 2014

The American Aristocracy

This is, again, how Washington works. You, me, and Main Street depend on Washington not noticing us. Major companies, however, spend to attract Washington’s notice and feed off Washington. The permanence of Washington is something the Founders tried to avoid. In the past one hundred years, the new found permanence of Washington’s political class have created a new aristocracy. Interestingly enough, right now only the base of the Republican Party is trying to do anything about it. Everyone else, despite their complaining, whining, and crying, seems perfectly happy with the status quo. They’d rather a corporatist Washington than a smaller Washington.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Interestingly enough, right now only the base of the Republican Party is trying to do anything about it.

Really? One would think that anyone truly trying to stop our rule by the rich wouldn't be in power for very long.

“The Federal Reserve [Banks] are one of the most corrupt institutions, the world has ever seen. There is not a man, within the sound of my voice, who does not know that this Nation is run by the International Bankers.”
~ Congressman Louis T. McFadden, 1933

McFadden was dead three years later.