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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 2959773" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Thus why the term is more metaphorical. Nobody knocking down an annual income of $750k are going to be in an individual position to sway the levers of power and public policy. Now that income may get them access into larger wealth collectives, thus the socialism of the so called wealth class, and then as a collective they gain some manner of influence but the real players are way up the food chain. Most cases they buy politicians on both sides thus why campaign promises are never kept. The real owners, that metaphorical 1%, won't allow real change.</p><p></p><p>The great early 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman once said, "if elections changed anything, elections would be outlawed." 100 years later Emma was spot on.</p><p></p><p>The biggest worry of this privileged political class is should the rest of us outside their "Big Club" who realize we're getting screwed over ever stop fighting among ourselves, realize the real enemy and then build our own structures that by pass their rigged game. Should that ever happen, game over.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 2959773, member: 2189"] Thus why the term is more metaphorical. Nobody knocking down an annual income of $750k are going to be in an individual position to sway the levers of power and public policy. Now that income may get them access into larger wealth collectives, thus the socialism of the so called wealth class, and then as a collective they gain some manner of influence but the real players are way up the food chain. Most cases they buy politicians on both sides thus why campaign promises are never kept. The real owners, that metaphorical 1%, won't allow real change. The great early 20th century anarchist Emma Goldman once said, "if elections changed anything, elections would be outlawed." 100 years later Emma was spot on. The biggest worry of this privileged political class is should the rest of us outside their "Big Club" who realize we're getting screwed over ever stop fighting among ourselves, realize the real enemy and then build our own structures that by pass their rigged game. Should that ever happen, game over. [/QUOTE]
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