“there’s a weakness in the American character that still yearns for that era of hereditary privilege which is the very thing that, that we escaped from.”
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Well, we escaped from having a monarchy, but hereditary privelege, not so much.
Bushes and Clintons either in the Oval Office or running to get there. The hereditary lines are even worse in Congress. In some districts, it’s almost a de facto aristocratic line.