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The Government of the United States has never, ever gone out of its way to represent the interests of “The Average Citizen”. That was always propaganda. Oh, and the Easter Bunny? That was your parents putting out candy after you went to sleep.
Now that we have that out of the way, something very profound has indeed happened over the last 20 to 30 years. Most of the good, high paying factory jobs have been exported. And what that means is that the number of power brokers in this country has been greatly reduced and the few power brokers that remain have become increasingly interested in projecting US military power abroad.
You see how that works? When the US Government had to make a large number of diverse economic interests happy, it appeared as if we lived in a functioning representative democracy because a consistent set of rules (what used to be called Laws) had to be applied in a relatively uniform fashion. Now that the Powers-That-Be are greatly concentrated into a small class, well let’s just say that the job of the government has been greatly eased.
So, once again:
Wealth distributed over a moderately large number of people = Something approaching representative democracy.
Wealth in the hands of a few = Something approaching fascism.
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