1 percent is reality. America does have a royalty class similar to Europe. I know it is hard to give up idealistic myths that the US is somehow different from the rest of the human race. If you were drunk and high on drugs and crashed into the Capital Building barriers 3:00 AM in the morning what do you think the Capital Police will do to you. Try dragged out of the car at gunpoint, boot on face and arms pulled till it hurts and handcuffs tightly put on. Move and they will kill you. Now if you are a Congressman, the police supervisor tells his men to stand down and you get a ride home.
Try running a business and state auditors find that you may have taken money out of customer accounts. You will have an instant appointment at the regulators office. If your answers are unsatisfactory, a SWAT will hit your home and business office. Computers, files and etc will be taken and a criminal referral is sent to the DA. Now if you are Corzine, nothing happens even weeks after regulators find 1.2 billion missing from customer accounts!!!!!!
Try running for office as a popular third party candidate. Every petition must be properly formatted, every deadline, every election reg must be met or else. In NJ a Dem candidate suddenly is unpopular and may lose to a GOP opposition, Problem is the Dems passed the deadline to change name on ballot with a more popular person. Judge decides in order to provide real choices for voters in the fall, he allows the name change despite rules say otherwise.
Gee, no ruling elites, no 1 percent protected class in America!!! Don’t be blind.
You misunderstand me. Of course there is a 1%; lots of them. Top 1% wealthy. Top 1% athletic ability. Top 1% musical talent. So what? Live with it. Life isn’t fair. You seem to be wasting your energy being envious of them. If it is so important to you find the 1% of something that you can attain and work your butt off. Or, you can be like me and not let the lives of others bother you, since it’s NONE OF MY DAMN BUSINESS.
Third party? Hell, try running as a conservative Republican in Virginia! Unless you are the party's designated candidate (or in Paul's case, designated court jester), don't even bother trying. Your primary candidate has been picked for you (or you can vote for the court jester as a protest)! Don't like it? Shut up and eat your peas!