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libdem4life

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5. I like switching from 1% to Oligarch Class. The entire system is Oligarchy. And we're there.
Thu Dec 17, 2015, 07:35 PM
Dec 2015

Bernie has been using the phrase, but I think most are unfamiliar with it, as we're still brainwashed to think we live in a Democracy. Another way to look at it is a Banana Republic. That which we have labeled so many countries as we lecture them on things like "free elections" and "feeding their people" and "human rights violations".

I put it in here a lot...thanks for the opportunity..this particular clip explains what has happened to Big Labor and the endorsements of Hillary Clinton...fellow Oligarchs.

"One of the most famous modern uses of the term occurs in “iron law of oligarchy,” a concept devised by the German sociologist Robert Michels to refer to the alleged inevitable tendency of political parties and trade unions to become bureaucratized, centralized, and conservative. His reasoning was that, no matter how egalitarian or even radical the original ideology and goals of a party or union may be, there must emerge a limited group of leaders at the centre who can direct power efficiently, get things done through an administrative staff, and evolve some kind of rigorous order and ideology to ensure the survival of the organization when faced by internal division and external opposition."

http://www.britannica.com/topic/oligarchy

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