We DID Have A Revolution To Strip Aristocrats Of Power. Right?

[DistressedAmerican]

Why are we so damn willing to put them right back into control?

An old post I'm recycling. Seemed appropriate given news of a Hillary 08 run leaking:



Here Is One Of My Problems With Both Hillary Clinton And George Bush

I am tired of American's adopting rich powerful families and voting members of them into (and out of for that matter) office in large part based on other family baggage. What someone's father, mother, brother, wife, or cousin did in office is not a reliable indicator of how they will behave. If Bush I and II do not prove that, nothing will.

I find that the American obsession with celebrity enters the arena of politics here. Not in the Ronny and Aaaahhnoold sense (a topic for another day). But, in the sense that Americans think that they KNOW people that they have seen on TV. They think that they know the relatives of politicians they have seen on TV. Like they have some special insight into them as a person. That gives them a willingness to trust them more than they would otherwise (again see Bush I and II).

That is worrisome as we all know that politicians have carefully crafted public personas. None of us know anyone from television. We should cut out the identifying so strongly with names and familiar faces.

I also object to the collection of so very much power in the hands of such a select few. It is exclusionary to the little guy. It rigs the game in advance. It is fundamentally unsound for the public at large. There is too much temptation to abuse.

We fought a war to free ourselves from aristocrats running the show. But it seems generations later we are more and more willing to return the power to them. We should as they say, "clean house and get some new blood"!

Check me on this if you would. Are there ANY real benefits to an arrangement like we have seen for the past seveeral election cycles? Should we really continue down this road?

[Scribe]

1. No. American Aristocrats seized power from British Aristocrats.

[HereSince1628]

5. Sad to say there is more than a smidgen of truth in that.

But then that's one of the great realities of war.

[Solly Mack]

2. Nah...that was the French

:)

They knew how to get rid of the aristocracy.

[kiahzero]

3. When I think French Revolution, I know I think success. (n/t)

[Solly Mack]

4. I love your smilie!!!!!!

It's great!

Oh, and I got a good snicker out of your comment.

[kiahzero]

6. What's the banana from?

I've noticed it before, but I am utterly clueless as to it's origin.

[Solly Mack]

8. An animated british band called rottenfruit.

Fairly vulgar and more than just a wee bit violent. They once sliced and diced a "mall-generated boy band" in order to win a battle of the bands competition. There is a film short of the band on the DVD "Cabin Fever."

I just like the look on the banana's face mostly.

[StClone]

7. How is Hillary Aristocratic?

Bill comes from dirt poor roots and Hillary came from a wealthy Chicago neighborhood but nothing megalithic. She won her New York seat because with Bill's help and a lot on her own. I'm not sure that he'd be of more benefit in a Prez run. I just believe their situation is vaguely aristocratic but not really of that nature. Hillary had relatives in politics but nothing of national political stature.