Some $peech Is Worth More Than Others

"Supreme Court Poised To Legalize Corruption"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/supreme-court-poised-to-legalize.html

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I can understand that the oppressed - worn down by economic and cultural deprivation - would "go along" with plutocracy. 
The "new thing under the sun" is how many Americans actively approve The Rule of Money.

Have they become so inarticulate that they think the rich will speak for them?

Are they so surrendered to The Golden Calf that they presume unique wisdom in wealth?

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"In 2009 Bergoglio (Pope Francis) made headlines when he criticised the government of Néstor Kirchner, husband of current Argentinian president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, claiming it was "immoral, illegitimate and unjust" to allow inequality in the country to grow. "Rather than preventing that, it seems they have opted for making inequalities even greater," he said. "Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities," he said at the time." http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/03/pope-francis-human-rights-are-violated.html

"The greater the wealth, the thicker the dirt. This indubitably describes a tendency of our time."  J. K. Galbraith

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.   J. K. Galbraith  (Alan: Ironically, "little guys" who applaud-the-manipulation-of-money surrender whatever advantages their forebears achieved. They know so little history that they are blind to the victories they eagerly dismantle. Among citizens who proclaim "We the people," 99 in a hundred cannot bend over fast enough. "Don't tread on me" has become unconscious code for "Pass the K-Y.")

"The merely rich are not rich enough to rule the modern market. The things that change modern history, the big national and international loans, the big educational and philanthropic foundations, the purchase of numberless newspapers, the big prices paid for peerages, the big expenses often incurred in elections - these are getting too big for everybody except the misers; the men with the largest of earthly fortunes and the smallest of earthly aims. There are two other odd and rather important things to be said about them. The first is this: that with this aristocracy we do not have the chance of a lucky variety in types which belongs to larger and looser aristocracies. The moderately rich include all kinds of people even good people. Even priests are sometimes saints; and even soldiers are sometimes heroes. Some doctors have really grown wealthy by curing their patients and not by flattering them; some brewers have been known to sell beer. But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."  G. K. Chesterton  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/chesterton-to-get-all-that-money-you.html

"Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it is just the opposite."  J. K. Galbraith

The truth is we are all caught in an economic system which is heartless.  Woodrow Wilson