I read this last night and it sent shivers down my spine – prophetic!

[truedelphi]

50. Somewhere inside a palatial ballroom, perhaps

even in an undersea location like the sort of million dollar mansions the Housing Cable Channel often portrays, the Four Hundred Ruling Families are clinking their celebratory champagne flutes, and passing the trays of duck pate and caviar.

They are so very happy that they have it figured out. They can bring oligarchy to what was a vibrant democracy a mere fifty years ago. They can destroy the rule of law, eliminate habeus corpus, allow for the highest rate of imprisonment of citizens in any country on the planet, and the whole secret is: make sure you keep the population so afraid of thinking even for a moment of any alternative. Oh and the Middle Incomed people? They are all on the same trajectory that the passenger pigeon was on in the late 1800's.

Now it is possible to run X vs Xx, (Where X means total embracing of the dictates of the Upper .01% .)

All that is necessary to keep anyone from thinking of anything other than voting for X is to make sure the population is scared shitless over the possible elimination of an inalienable right.

This election, the Powers that Be used Women's Health as the buffer issue. Next time, it could be the notion that if you don't vote for X (or Xx) then there won't be affordable drinking water.

In any event, all anyone had to do was watch the official debates to see who would win the election. The poor were not mentioned in any of the debates. (I think there may have been one mention in passing of the poor.) The middle class was mentioned less than six times.

And Obama let Rmoney know in the very first debate that he was fine with embracing Simpson Bowles.