Quote: (08-01-2014 10:29 AM)Cunnilinguist Wrote:
Quote: (08-01-2014 10:20 AM)Dantes Wrote:
Look at the Clintons and Bush family for example. Publically they were political rivals, privately they are the best of friends.
Yep. There's this myth of "the spirit of competition" and "rivalry" among American political parties, corporations, and private interests. Nothing of the sort exists. These guys are high-fiving each other in private. Obama and Bush probably play squash together at the same country club.
"Competition" is for the poor and the peons. The top-tier elites co-operate and work together.
Politics is essentially a sport for these people. It's what you do when you have a shitload of money, unlimited ambition, and are just at the right influence level to play ball. It's not representative of the people as much as it is representative of a small core of the American population pulling the strings. That is the true definition of our modern "republic."
The elite and the average American's interests have occasionally coincided in the past to bring relative prosperity to the nation. But these interests have been diverging for quite some time now. We're entering a new dark and uncertain phase of U.S. development which will be characterized by increasing inequality, political disenfranchisement, and reduction of the middle class.
The middle class is pesky for the elite and always will be. They aren't poor enough to be completely manipulated and they aren't rich enough to be part of the club.