From Ruling Class to Oligarchy

American Greatness ^ | 11/20/2020 | Angelo Codevilla

[Mr. Jeeves]

By its campaign and conduct of the 2020 election, the ruling class ceased pretending to be part of a constitutional republic. By treating fellow Americans as inferiors through word and deed, its members renounced their common citizenship with us. Eschewing persuasion, they set about compelling obedience to an openly manipulated election.

Thus did they burn their bridges to the rest of America as surely as did Hernán Cortéz when he burned the ships that had carried his troops to conquer the Aztec empire. Henceforth, they must rule or ruin as the oligarchy they have become.

For four decades beginning in the mid-1960s, a class of rulers grew in America. They became ever more uniform socially and intellectually, ever more opposed to the rest of Americans, and ever more powerful. This happened as government took upon itself the tasks of eliminating poverty and harmonizing the races, and as it controlled ever greater shares of the national income.

Increasingly, their powers were based on claims of expertise coming from the universities. These underwent a fourfold increase in size (from 9 percent of Americans with four-year degrees in 1965 to 36 percent in 2015). Their connection with government conferred both wealth and additional prestige. Few paid attention to President Eisenhower’s warning about the connection between government and academic elites.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The inimitable Angelo Codevilla lays it all out - the conquest is nearly complete.

[polymuser]

A good video on types of government and where they end up:

POLITICAL SYSTEMS 101: Basic Forms of Government Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJEuZrvNYg0

[PGalt]

Rules for changing a limited republican government into an unlimited hereditary one.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/FRENEAUbanking.html

Philip Freneau spoke about it a long time ago.

[SanchoP]

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1821

Jefferson predicted this 200 yrs ago.

[MuttTheHoople]

We've always had Americans who wanted to rule over us. Alexander Hamilton was haughty arrogant like that. However, he had reason- he was a courageous leader of men who was Washington's trusted aide and led attacks on redoubts at Yorktown that pretty much sealed the Continental's victory. Also, his money policies stablized US currency and made us financially viable.

Today's elites are a bunch inbred retards.