[ryderann]

What a surprise! A quick search shows Fred Smith’s $upporting republicans, with only a couple of dems here and there. In the very near future, in order to do business, work, obtain groceries, living space, cars, tvs, schooling medical care, etc, we will have to belong to Obama’s party AND be in good $tanding. Remember how it was in the USSR? Now it’s coming to us.

[La Lydia]

The nomenklatura were a small, elite subset of the general population in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key administrative positions in all spheres of those countries' activity: government, industry, agriculture, education, etc. The nomenklatura was analogous to the ruling class, which Communist doctrine denounced in the capitalist West. Without exception, they were members of the Communist Party.

See dissident Michael Voslenski's, "Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class"