When This Blows Over

• dnpbuckley
24 Apr 2017 9:43
It is peculiarly American (I think) to imagine that the
corrective to Entrenched Plutocracy is ... grass-roots democracy!
I wish you well, Mr. [Cornell] West, but fear it'll take
something more than brotherhood or sisterhood to save us
from our current predicament ... although you are undoubtedly
right that the Democratic Party is a hollow shell with no voice
and no constituency. Its only message is: "I'm With H-er"
(although she is with Wall Street).
plu·toc·ra·cy
/plo͞ oˈtäkrəsē/
noun
1. government by the wealthy.
"the attack on the Bank of England was a gesture against the very symbol of
plutocracy"
o
o
a country or society governed by the wealthy.
plural noun: plutocracies
"no one can accept public policies which turn a democracy into a plutocracy"
an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.
"officials were drawn from the new plutocracy"
American Plutocracy has a long and illustrious history. Its
tentacles are everywhere; its toxins run deep. There is no
known antidote, despite a long history of populist (and popular)
attempts -- by workers, by farmers -- to wrest control of the
country from the grasping hands of the well-heeled and the
well-connected. The Plutocracy straddles both parties and (like
Pepsi) co-opts all movements.