Can We Just Agree that Everything is Fake? The American Aristocracy is Real.

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4. Not "on the verge of." There's been a permanent aristocracy in America since the 1870s, if not

from the beginning.

Each new war brings a new faction to the forefront. The Civil War created the great steel and railroad Barons, World War One the Wall Street Bankers and oilmen came to dominate the country, World War Two created the modern Military Industrial Complex that still dominates the federal government and foreign policy, along with Big Oil and Wall Street and the vestiges of the original landed gentry who grabbed vast tracts of real estate during the colonial period.

The next wave seems to be global and foreign moneyed elites, China Inc. and the Saudis, as competing elites pick over our bones and demand austerity after we lost the Mideast and South Asian debt wars of the last decade.

Always, law protects property grabbed by the wealthy, no matter who they are or how they gained it.

Just another turn of the screw. It's always the commoners who get screwed.