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History Lesson: America Is the Same 'Ol Oligarchy It Was over a Century Ago

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Come on, even our Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen (you know, the lady that runs the place that prints our money and sells it to us with interest) has basically admitted it.

But are things really getting worse these days or is this just par for the course — the same course we've been on for over a century now?

Tinkering around in an old bookstore in a small Texas town, we came across a set of old books on democracy; we got the first seven volumes of a set entitled, "The March of Democracy: A History of the United States" written by James Truslow Adams — the guy who coined the term "The American Dream" — for a mere $20.

The first book's copyright is 1932. The last book ends in 1958.

Fascinating stuff…

For example, in volume four "America and World Power," the book discusses how "Gradually and quite naturally, there grew up the belief in a great conspiracy on the part of the very rich to ruin the poor."

Read this and tell me — does any of it sound even the least bit familiar to you?

Most strikingly in the public eye were the great Titans of the new business era, the coal and meat "barons" and the copper, railway, steel, and other "kings," men of the type of the elder J.P. Morgan, of James J. Hill, William H. Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Frick, William H. Clark, and Rockefeller. Such men had certain broad traits in common, differ as they might from each other as individuals. They were men of wide economic but intensely narrow social vision, and of colossal driving power and iron wills. They could lay their economic plans with imperial vision in time and space, but for the effect of their acts on society they cared nothing whatever. They claimed the right to rule the economic destinies of the people in any way that would enure their own personal advantage.


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