Donald Trump And The Triumph Of Plutocracy
"Plutocracy Triumphant"
Cartoon Compendium
"It seems to me there are very dangerous ambiguities about our democracy in its actual present condition. I wonder to what extent our ideals are now a front for organized selfishness and irresponsibility. If our affluent society ever breaks down and the facade is taken away, what are we going to have left?"
Trappist Monk Thomas Merton
"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."
To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it."
G. K. Chesterton
Remember How Fast The Soviet Union Collapsed?
It Can Happen Here
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/remember-how-fast-soviet-union.html
Pax On Both Houses: Compendium Of G.K. Chesterton Posts
"Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat."
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make crazy."
Sophocles
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