Southern Values Revived: How Our Elites Have Become Worse "It’s been said that the rich are different than you and me. What most Americans don’t know is that they’re also quite different from each other, and that which faction is currently running the show ultimately makes a vast difference in the kind of country we are. Right now, a lot of our problems stem directly from the fact that the wrong sort has finally gotten the upper hand; a particularly brutal and anti-democratic strain of American aristocrat that the other elites have mostly managed to keep away from the levers of power since the Revolution. Worse: this bunch has set a very ugly tone that’s corrupted how people with power and money behave in every corner of our culture. Here’s what happened, and how it happened, and what it means for America now."
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posted by bookman117
on Jul 2, 2012 -
131 comments
So we've got opinions about
Bill Gates. But what about billionaire
George Soros? He funds, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars a year, various causes in
the US, in
Europe, and
elsewhere. He's a critic of what he sees as the
excesses of late capitalism. But does Soros represent a good thing? (More inside...)
posted by snarkout
on Dec 27, 2000 -
9 comments
