Announcement: The US is no longer a democracy.

Posted: Sep 8, 2016

...that is little different from the feudal system that existed in England at the time of the American Revolution. No, we don't designate "lords, ladies, dukes and earls" as such, but have no doubt that they exist. No, we don't have a king...or do we? Thomas Jefferson knew something about the insidious ways in which power becomes concentrated in the hands of the few, and used in ways that benefited the few to the disadvantage of the many. He predicted that every generation would need its own fresh revolution in order to counter this propensity and keep power in the hands of the people. It's very hard, at this point in the Great American Experiment, to show how Jefferson was wrong.;