Why rural voters don’t vote Democratic anymore

[David Horn]

(12-08-2016, 09:10 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(12-07-2016, 08:14 AM)Odin Wrote:

(12-06-2016, 11:09 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(12-06-2016, 04:41 PM)Odin Wrote: A strong government is a necessary protector of the masses against elites wishing to create an outright oligarchy.

Oh come on.  GHWBush then GWBush then Jeb?  Bill then Hillary then Chelsea?  The government was already an outright oligarchy, hereditary no less.

LOL, Bill was born Arkansas white trash, he would have never become president in the first place if the US were a full-blown oligarchy.

I'm not saying we were already an oligarchy in 1992; that was a long time ago.  We are now, though.

Putting government in charge of protecting the people from the economic elites is definitely a fox guarding the hen house situation.

If you look at the 19th century, the ruling class and the owner class were bosom buddies and allies to the core.  Neither party bucked the moneyed elites then, and it doesn't happen now either.  The recent swing toward the oligarchic model started, arguably, under Nixon, when the tool of the elites, Evangelical Christianity, was brought into the GOP.  That's also the start of the Southern Strategy, were the antebellum South still survived in spirit.  Once both parties started running Sun Belt candidates, the model was complete.