Chris Hedges: The Great Unraveling

[Fred Sanders]

73. Used to be the uber-rich were content with just all the physical toys and the simple pleasures of money.

At some point that was not enough.

At some point The RICH not only got richer, they grew obscenely richer beyond their wildest money-shot dreams! And rather than just a handful of The RICH peers and brethren to hang around with and guzzle overpriced perfumed alcohol on overpriced perfumed bedrooms on water, there ended up being quite a few obscenely rich folks in America and around the world. And rich folks being rich folks, so it seems they all got bored at the same time of what obscene amounts of money could buy and turned so in unions turned their bored and rapidly aging rheumatic eyes to other things to purchase and play with.

And not just purchasing some banana Republic - so "been there, done that!" - purchasing America!

Yes, that America!

Costly of course and there being no way of buying the entire American government (Gernada, by example, was had for single figure millions).......unless somehow ........somehow......all corporate and private money given to politicians could be made unlimited and preferably non-disclosavle, and all those anti-corruption laws against co-ordination between donor and politician were somehow annulled or muted.

Other issues and barriers aside, billionaires forged with commissioned studies, just out of bored billionaire curiosity, of the financial end of the equation, which studies arrived at a consensus that the price of purchasing the entire American government would be tens of billions of dollars over 10 years, with 2 to 4 billion in the final year instalment of the purchasing plan for America. A lot of money, a lot of time, not to mention judicial and media interference would be impossible to overcome.


Never going to happen.

And so it came to be The RICH just gave up that impossible pipe dream of purchasing the American media and the courts and the politicians and all made possible first by all the election finance laws being made to their liking, am I right?