October 07, 2007

America's oligarchy

Posted by Wendy McElroy at October 7, 2007 12:04 PM

A disturbing thought. George Herbert Walker Bush was President from 1989-1993, William Jefferson Clinton from 1993-2001. George Walker Bush will have been President from 2001-2009. If Hillary Clinton wins in 2008 and even if she serves only one term, then two families will have occupied the White House for almost 25 years -- more than one generation. The definition of oligarchy is "a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society." How much more elite can America become than to have two families out of a population of 300,000,000 people hold ultimate power for a quarter of a century?


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