Political government is established among people to preserve and to protect the privileges of a powerful elite. Or as Butler Shaffer recently put it, "It should come as no great revelation to point out that democratically-constituted political systems have interests of their own that conflict with the wills of their alleged u2018principals.’" Folks who believe that our current social situation, that is massive redistribution of wealth, massive debt, American Imperialism, and our growing police state, is a recent or expedient corruption of our federal Constitution need to read Murray Rothbard’s Conceived in Liberty. The political elite was thriving in the … Continue reading Of the Elite, by the Elite, for the Elite