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Warpy

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

Reply to OldYallow (Original post)

Mon Jan 9, 2017, 04:32 AM

Jan 2017

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.

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I Just Heard America Wasn't An Oligarchy [View all] OldYallow Jan 2017 OP

whoever told you America wasn't an oligarchy, doesn't know what the word means. putitinD Jan 2017 #1

Members of the oligarchy and their paid and unpaid flacks Warpy Jan 2017 #2

Ben Franklin, printer, was the media baron of his day FarCenter Jan 2017 #3