The founding fathers gave us a Republic, and had doubts about us being able to keeping it.
We have been quite successful in living up to that doubt.
I like what Fred Reed has to say about the Government, or what poses as one!
We are ruled not by a government but by a class. Here the
media is crucial. Unless you spend time outside of America, you may
not realize to what extent the press is controlled. The press is
largely free, yes, but it is also largely owned by a small number of
corporations which, in turn, are run by people from the same pool
from which are drawn high-level pols and their advisers. They are
rich people who know each other and have the same interests. It is
very nearly correct to say that these people are the government of
the United States, and that the federal apparatus merely a useful
theatrical manifestation.
