January 13, 2014 at 8:48 pm
#802915
wakeflood
Participant
And I suspect that a number of the framers – who came to the Constitutional discussion resplendent in their strong beliefs in the righteousness of the greater good and how a plutocracy of well-educated, well-intentioned men could be beneficial to a functioning society – would be aghast at the flavor of plutocracy we’ve settled for.
Namely, one powered by greed and self-engrandizement. And cloaked in the well-meaningness of a “meritocracy” gone awry.