American Oligarchy

Timothy Birdnow

Yes, the U.S. is now an oligarchy.

America was founded on a two-tiered system and it was actually a good thing. The Founding Fathers weren't poor men; on the contrary they were the wealthy and educated class. BUT they had diverse interests and were essentially at odds and so when they created their system they put checks and balances in place, and gave the People a say in matters.

What we created was a system that worked smoothly. The wealthy were by far the smallest group in the country, and they had to have the support of a lot of others to implement any policies they wanted. Also, newspapers were local and had a local flavor and reasoned like their neighbors, so there was no monolithic propaganda machine manipulating the public as now.

This made the wealthy class uniquely suited to being in charge. Any other class would have been oppressive.

But even then there were problems. The Bank of the United States, for instance, was universally hated by Americans but the very wealthy made out well through it.

And that income gap has widened. In 1774, the top 1 percent of households got 9.3 percent of income. Compare that to America today, when the top 1 percent is bringing in about 20 percent. And corporations have made it possible for a few key individuals to control vastly more sums of money.

So the power of the wealthy class has grown all out of proportion. And so has the lower class, which, due to their wealthy benefactors who are utilizing a divide and conquer strategy now hold disproportionate influence in America.

The middle class, once America's backbone, is being squeezed to death. And that suits the Ruling Class just fine; their main competitor is the middle class. They know that they can lose to some upstarts who can't be bought. Now they co-opt many newly rich middle classers, but that doesn't always work. Trump is an example.

And these people all atttend the same schools, vacation in the same resorts, enjoy the same sports, and live in the same places. They isolate themselves from middle America.

So what had once been a benevolent governance is now a tyranny. And it gets worse all the time as they assert themselves, their power, and their depraved minds on the rest of us.

In many ways America always was an Oligarchy. The idea of The People being sovereign was a fiction; the oligarchs ruled by persuasion and a bit of guile in the past. Now they rule by manipulating everything the public sees and hears and is allowed to say. What was once gentle persuasion is increasingly the iron boot in the face. They have turned our national security apparatus into a giant psy-op machine. We created the most powerful such weapon in human history, with groups like the CIA, NSA, FBI, etc. to resist the Communists, then to fight drugs, then terrorism. Now these groups have a new mission; to fight America and compel it to obey the Ruling Class.

In short, the aristocracy has broken the covenant. When they were content to take their share and share power we were content to let them make their profits and play with government. Now they are abusing their privilege. They became very greedy. And many of us are pushing back. They don't like that and are unleashing the might and power of the almighty State against us. They are absolutely convicned they are the best and brightest and know bettter than do we.

But they don't know America at all. Most have never even been to Nebraska or Iowa or anywhere in the heartland.

This disconnect has made them arrogant and abusive. And it will only get worse as they get their hackles up at the people of this country for not recognizing their superiority.

The oligarchy will indeed be replaced at some point by a pure democracy. We see the movement in place now. And that will wreck everything. It always does.

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