[Pontiac]

I agree that a small ruling class is better. I small ruling class accountable to the citizen is less a burden on the people.

In the last fort years our ruling class has grown out of proportion to the population.

Fifty years ago General Motors was the largest single employer in the US.

Today it is the Federal Government.

That tells you a lot about the state of the Nation.

Some time in the last fifty years the Republic died and the Empire of America was born.

[marktwain]

There seems to be a significant inflection point from 1965-68, or perhaps 1960-70.

Kennedy assassination, Great Society, out of control inflation, gun control, Supreme Court rules on religion in school, abortion, all stem from this inflection point.

It strikes me this is when Progressive ideology changed from nationalist to internationalist.

[FarCenter]

>>Some time in the last fifty years the Republic died and the Empire of America was born.

The Empire of America was born with the War of Independence, which established the right of the colonies to expand westward into the Ohio Valley without hindrance by London.

The Westward expansion of the American Empire continued through the 19th century, and became global with the Spanish American War.