[PGR88]

What really strikes me about her though is simply how she demonstrates how entangled the professional, educational, economic, financial, business-crony and familial relations are among America’s elites at the center of the empire.

Its something a Roman patrician in 2nd century Rome would understand very well.

[Reno89519]

Yes, I've seen infrequently maps/family trees showing all of the family ties among senior officials, media, etc. We need to update and broaden the ban on nepotism and also require more transparency on family ties.

How many of these people would not have gotten into schools, got the jobs, and the promotions if it weren't for their family ties?

[Ozark Tom]

Nepotism runs rampant in the ‘connected’ over merit.

[piasa]

Even if this “incompetence” is intentional.... with all the incest within the Washington bureaucracy it is no wonder they are wrong about nearly everything, and every generation without fresh people and perspectives to bring new blood, the DNA degenerates, producing ever more grotesque mutations.