Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interest of the ruling class – whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

— Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual

(from Frank Herbert’s Children of Dune)


It’s true that the wealth of the top one percent is constantly increasing at the expense of the bottom ninety percent. Seventy-five trillion dollars have transferred “upward” between these groups in the United States over the last few decades. It’s not all on the personality cult of DJT nor is it specific to our country. Oligarchs, bureaucracy, and rampant free-market capitalism all contribute. Susan and I attended the Fight Oligarchy rally in Tucson this weekend. The turnout and enthusiasm were incredible. I have hope that together we can make a change. Follow the movement.

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