...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.
Thomas JeffersonTag: capitalism plutocracy
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal
the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have
nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined,
is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
Tag: capitalism plutocracy
Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.
Greg BearTag: politics plutocracy
Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.
Alice WalkerTag: democracy plutocracy oligarchy ruling-class
Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.
Giuseppe PrezzoliniTag: democracy government voting plutocracy oligarchy
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
Howard ZinnTag: democracy government plutocracy oligarchy
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas JeffersonTag: politics plutocracy economic-inequality
We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.
Tag: politics liberalism class-warfare plutocracy american-culture aux-armes-citoyens right-wing-oppression right-wing-thuggery
Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which is inevitable given the open character of the events. But so what? I, at least, am a lot more offended by the sight of exquisitely tailored plutocrats, who owe their continued wealth to government guarantees, whining that President Obama has said mean things about them than I am by the sight of ragtag young people denouncing consumerism.
Paul KrugmanTag: wealth economics united-states protest inequality consumerism barack-obama plutocracy occupy-wall-street
I'm [Paul O'Neill] an old guy, and I'm rich. And there's nothing they can do to hurt me.
SuskindTag: loyalty plutocracy vendetta dick-cheney u-s-politics bush-administration
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