I Just Heard America Wasn't An Oligarchy

[OldYallow]

Wow.

So what people want matters more to politicians than what the people who own the media, and have 50 trillion in wealth want.

Boy howdy.

A head scratcher.

[putitinD]

1. whoever told you America wasn't an oligarchy, doesn't know what the word means.

[Warpy]

2. Members of the oligarchy and their paid and unpaid flacks

will keep telling you that very thing. They got away with it in the Roman Empire for nearly 500 years, as long as they kept the bread ration being doled out and the circuses entertaining.

Our oligarchs have forgotten about the bread and circuses. They won't last nearly as long.

[FarCenter]

3. Ben Franklin, printer, was the media baron of his day

Many of the Founding Fathers were oligarchs. After the French Indian War, Britain acquired the Ohio Territory, but wouldn't let the colonial land speculators move in. This was a major cause of the War of Independence, which was followed by a westward land rush.