Oligarchy [ol-i-gahr-kee]

[Lochloosa]

Nothing else to say...

noun, plural oligarchies.
1.
a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

[Thenewire]

1. I truly feel sorry for the people that vote for them

I cant understand what the appeal is, I suppose manufactured fear takes over rationality leading to irrational self-harm.

[Lochloosa]

3. I don't get it either. Low information voters maybe.

Welcome to DU Thenewire.

[2naSalit]

2. Fasten yer seatbelts, folks

we're in for the worst ride of our lives.

[OrwellwasRight]

4. I would amend that to plutocracy.

It's not just any few -- it's the monied few:

Plutocracy:

1: government by the wealthy


2: a controlling class of the wealthy

[kydo]

5. Ok we are an Oligarchy/Plutocracy country now

Its still sad either way. The founding fathers dream is officially dead. Its going to be a long while until we start to recover from this. And I don't mean Dem's I mean the country. The crazies that voted for these nut jobs and the voters who stayed home just sentenced this country to generations of poverty and hell. thanks.

[deutsey]

6. I felt the same way after the 2000 election

I have yet to be proven wrong, unfortunately.

[OrwellwasRight]

7. I agree it is sad either way.

But I am not sure "The founding fathers dream is officially dead." The founding fathers were rich, white, and for the most part, slave-owning men. They constituted a plutocracy. And they made sure states could make laws limiting the vote to other white, property-owning males. They did not institute universal suffrage so it has never been clear to me that they believed in the dream that many of their words implied.

I agree with you that this country can and should stand for better. But throughout our history, we have rarely lived up to our potential. Perhaps during the Civil War and Reconstruction, briefly during the Progressive Era, and again during the New Deal and Post-War years. That leaves the rest of America's history to be the history of a plutocracy. It is up to the people to take the power back into our own hands. Power concedes nothing.

[navarth]

8. yes indeed. kick.