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Has America Become An Aristocracy

Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago to Philosophy
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The following is an excerpt from a speech by Frank Buckley, a Foundation Professor at Scalia Law School at George Mason University. I have excerpted a section of the speech given at Hillsdale College on July 11, 2016. It can be found on line at http://Hillsdale.edu.
"In a corrupt country, trust is a rare commodity. That's America today. Only 19 percent of Americans say they trust the government most of the time, down from 73 percent in 1958 according to the Pew Research Center. Sadly, that is a rational response to the way things are. America is a different country today, and a much nastier one. For politically engaged Republicans, the figure is six percent. That in a nutshell explains the Trump phenomenon and the disintegration of the Republican establishment. If the people don't trust the government, tinkering with entitlement reform is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
American legal institutions are consistently more liberal than those in Canada, and they are biased towards a privileged class of insiders who are better educated and wealthier than the average American. That's why America has become an aristocracy."

Is Mr. Buckley right? I think he is.

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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    As has been mentioned many times in this forum, politics in America has become a job to obtain wealth and power. It has little to do with a constituency except in order to get the job. And even getting the job has eroded into a game of go along to get along to get the money and support needed to win.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They don't think that there's such a thing as gravity. They just think that the Earth sucks.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yea...sucking the freedom out of a dead countries body...come to think about it...that's exactly what sorass, hiltery and obobo have done.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Guess that's what someone who sucks freedom out of a republic does when he's not playing golf.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I believe that you are quite correct about the migration. Most of the establishment is for life for one purpose only - power. The socialists have won and, although the "Republicans" have been socialists for a long time, might as well acquire an official label and join the power Party.
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  • Posted by Owlsrayne 8 years, 11 months ago
    It is sad that this country has become a bastion of of the criminal aristocracy or the Land of the Oligarchs (like Russia). Anyone who works in the Oligarch govt. of the USA is working to save their jobs. The FBI Director is one such person, he is only looking out for himself not for out for justice. I'm surprised that more Americans haven't raise their voices against this miscarriage of justice. I believe that most of our congressional representatives don't represent their constituency only special interests and those donors that help get them elected.
    It is almost time for a New American Revolution.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Either that, he is smelling his own expelled gases that would make an experienced "Smurth" come to a climax!
    Smurth: a person that sucks the gases out of a dead person's body.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Laughing...get the impression that when obobo ass raises his nasty nose into the air, it's to facilitate the compartmentalized bull crap to slide down to where his brains are really located...
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I disagree. The Clintons acted and smelled worse and on a larger scale than LBJ even dreamt of.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Corrupt, yes. Incompetent? Not so sure. They did accomplish many left-wing goals to the detriment of the country but to the benefit of themselves.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    To me, it made the entire family look childish in a nose-thumbing "nyah-nyah" kind of way. Very disappointing. (I'm taking my ball and going home.).
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Aristocracy is Mr. Buckley's word. I agree that I prefer oligarchy as you do. Aristocracy, however, has certain powerful connotations that grabs the attention.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Old Ug:
    Right again. In today's world, better educated means that one has specialized and met certain standards, doctor, engineer, etc. or has graduated with the ability to spell most words properly or can construct an understandable sentence.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ed G.
    There is a big overlap between Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans overlap into the right side of the Democrats and the Democrats overlap onto the left side of the Republicans. This creates the largest party of all, you might call them the "Republicrats." On the far side of each party are the Socialists on the left, and the Conservatives on the right. With just a small squeeze, it turns into the corrupt one party system.
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  • Posted by strugatsky 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I struggle hard to imagine the reasons for your respect of the Bush family. Please mention any.
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