George and Laura Bush are poster children for the new American Aristocracy.

[rhett o rick]

They are totally clueless to the suffering in this country and around the world. It is beneath them. Ignorance is happiness, and they got that covered.

The American Aristocracy thinks that laws do not apply to them because they are the privileged, the anointed. The rest of us can "eat cake".

IMHO we no longer live in a democracy. Everything is run by the American Aristocracy. We can not change this through standard democratic means because our democratic system is broken. And a violent revolution will play directly into their hands. They are already prepared to “round-up millions”.

We are only one solid bout of hyper-inflation away from Third World status.

If there is a hope it is that Obama and enough powerful individuals believe in America as the founding fathers envisioned it, and fight the new American Aristocracy and the Bush Crime Family.

Even Obama’s best attempts will be undermined at every step buy the Aristocracy with their members in Congress and their media.

Most likely the Bush Crime Family will run a shadow government. They “own” the companies that do the domestic spying, they “own” the companies that control our energy supplies, they “own” the military/industrial/media complex, etc. E.g., how is Obama going to stop Comcast, Goggle, and ATT from spying for Jeb Bush?

Other than that have a happy new year.

[Frustratedlady]

1. As supporters of Obama, we must be vigilant. I hope they haven't gotten to him, yet.

If he is willing to fight, we should be right behind him in support. "Not this time!" must continue to be our chant and we should not back down.

I don't think we truly realize what a brave move Obama has taken to fight against the BFEE or Clinton group. He is very impressive, but he is only one man. We can't just elect him and sit back to see him pull this off by himself. He has chosen his team, and he has the majority of voters (probably more than were recorded) behind him, so heads up and clenched fist at the ready!

Go, Obama! We've got your back!

[eridani]

9. Even if he isn't the fighter we hope for, we still have to back him

I do think that there is more of an organized and aroused public now than when Clinton was first elected.

[Kahuna]

11. Amen Sister. He needs us to back him up. Not attack him because he's

not acting like Santa Claus.

[90-percent]

2. GWB

If GWB is not prosecuted to the full extent of the law we Americans have a sham for a country and the Constitution is nothing but a piece of paper.

It was fun while it lasted.

It's not so bad being in a totalitarian police state, as long as it's snunk up on you by the people you elected and is implemented over a 30 year time frame. Our thirty years is up - now!

Totalitarianism rocks, speaking as a user thereof. I wasn't using many of my "inalienable" rights anyway...

-90% Jimmy

[fascisthunter]

3. and the Guillotine is a Result of an Aristocracy

no police state can prevent that reality.

[rhett o rick]

4. I love the sound of the guillotine in the morning.

Are you implying that the guillotine is the answer? It didn't do the French much good. They got rid of their aristocracy and got a dictator.

It is a good fantasy to think that we mite rise up and throw off our bonds. Might even work if we could squeeze it in between American Idol and The Bachelor.

[fascisthunter]

5. If I thought it were the answer I Wouldn't be involved in Politics

.. It's not a "Wish", just a Historical Fact and if the upper class idiots don't get a handle on their idiocy they will probably see something similar to that which was used by the French.

Nobody with a brain wants to see a revolution nor bloodshed, but the rich seem to cross that line all too often as if they were unaware of how angry the lower classes were. No amount of entertainment will be able to dull their senses.

[rhett o rick]

18. I can't imagine the ruling class as ever getting a "handle on their

idiocy" or greed.

[MasonJar]

6. Says who? Aristcracy and W are not synonymous. He may be rich, but GWB is "white

trash" personified. "Peer"ness is a state of mind. True aristocracy is patrician (personified by Al Gore) with a sense of altruism (noblesse oblige), not the ironical "let them eat cake" philosophy of the greedy Philistines. We have aristocrats in America and have had since the days of George Washington, but their "class" is based on service and statesmanship not wealth. Georgie couldn't rise to the level of their boots to lick them. Two of those American aristocrats are his two opponents: Gore and Kerry. How very sad that the average American is too oblivious to recognize "true worth" at the ultimate level. Well, they had their "beer" man and the rest of us and the world have suffered as a result. Maybe now we shall all have a chance at champagne!!!!!!! We might even let them sit on the bar stool with us and sip the joy (if they behave.)

[rhett o rick]

10. How romantic, "their "class" is based on service and statesmanship not wealth. Georgie couldn't rise

to the level of their boots to lick them." Yes that is true, but the Bush Family is definitely included in the ruling class is. Maybe Aristocracy is the wrong word. Georgie is immune from prosecution because the ruling class sticks together.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. The embodiment of Tom and Daisy Buchanon.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy -– they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…

[The_Commonist]

8. Opt out.

We give them their aristocratic status every time we buy something that they profit from.
The revolution will happen once enough people opt out from buying their crap.
Simply stop playing their game, stop giving them our money, stop allowing them to be aristocrats on our dime.
It would be easier than we imagine, if we would just do it.
I'll go first...

[rhett o rick]

17. I think that many millions of Americans are already "out", whether they want to be or not. nm

[immoderate]

12. Corporate personhood is the stumbling block.

Corporations have all the rights of citizens under the law. PLUS they shield their owners from liability and they are immortal. We should try to do something to reverse this.

--IMM

[rhett o rick]

13. Agree this should be high on the long list. nm

[tbyg52]

16. Absolutely agree. nt

[leftofthedial]

14. Let us eat cake.

[rhett o rick]

15. Make mine Devil's food, plez. nm