Jeb Bush’s Favorite Author Rejects Democracy, Says The Hyper-Rich Should Seize Power

[kenfrequed]

1. Hmm

I am torn here.

A part of me thinks that this is an appeal to some kind of counter-revolutionary antidemocratic movement to gradual take over by taking over communications, disenfranchising voters, subverting the courts, rearranging rules for elections, and then gradually convincing people of the idea that the wealthy deserve their place in life by merity and are best to rule over us all...


I had a punchline for this but I'm already too saddened to properly deliver it.

Seriously, I think that this kind of writing is more about defending the system we have arrived at than it is for calling on a new form of plutonomy or plutocracy. We are already there.