"I do not believe that people fought and died for democracy so that billionaires can buy elections."

[JDPriestly]

87. So, Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin, the many, many soldiers including the backwoodsmen

and all those who supported and fought for and conceived of our revolution were upper class.

Hardly. The only shows an ignorance about what was considered upper class or nobility in the 18th century.

My ancestors were farm and backwoods people who fought for the Revolution. They understood very well what they were fighting about. There were some wealthy people. Very few of the revolutionaries were at ll what you would call the oligarchy or nobility of the time. Maybe Lafayette. Some had more money than others, but the classes were very well defined in the 18th century. Very few of the revolutionaries were what was then viewed as upper class. Jefferson was a gentleman farmer, but not a member of the aristocracy. They were middle class.