Posted on 01/27/2021 9:25:30 AM PST by Heartlander
It’s hard to tell anymore just who’s in charge of the country. Those of a classic state of mind are inclined to say the president, perhaps in concert with Congress, sometimes aided by the Supreme Court.
This can’t be true, not entirely.
We’ve already seen an aging Joe Biden, fresh into his office, confused which new diktat he was signing, a law-in-all-but-name Executive Order which he surely did not write, and admitted knowing nothing about.
Yet someone had to write this diktat. Perhaps a White House staff officer. Perhaps an outside agent. It’s long been true that corporate and special-interest lobbyists have had a hand in penning orders and laws. Sometimes, rumor has it, they retain sole authorship.
Have we already forgotten the five thousand-page spending bill that Congress passed? The one Trump threatened to veto but didn’t? Congress creatures complained that they had no idea what was in it. Many hadn’t even had a chance to see it before being asked to vote yes.
Clearly, someone else had written this collection of mystery laws.
It costs money to be a lobbyist with law-making clout. Lots of it. The more money, the greater the influence. And it’s not the lobbyists themselves wielding checkbooks. That duty belongs to their masters.
Which means the oligarchs.
It’s the oligarchs who are in charge. Again, not entirely, but to an ever more obvious degree.
Michael Lind says “America is now ruled by a single elite class” which forms an “increasingly homogeneous national oligarchy, with the same accent, manners, values, and educational backgrounds from Boston to Austin and San Francisco to New York and Atlanta. This is a truly epochal development.”
Many have gleaned the outlines of our new hierarchy. Angelo Codevilla wrote recently:
In 2015, Americans could still believe they lived in a republic, in which...
(Excerpt) Read more at stream.org ...
Oligarchies have always been in power. There is truly no such thing as a Monarchy or Dictatorship. Those are really just Oligarchies with a semi-permanent figurehead. Without people to back up the Monarch or Dictator, they would cease to be.
Want to be ruled?
Want to be bossed?
Want to be dominated?
Want to be subservient?
Want to be constantly lied to?
VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAPS!
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