@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

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...👉 for corrupt or selfish purposes.👈

👉 #Oligarchies in which members of the ruling group are wealthy or exercise their power through their wealth are known as #plutocracies..."👈

https://www.britannica.com/topic/oligarchy

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#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

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...that Aristotle called #polity). Rule by one or the few in the...

rulers’ own interest is tyranny or oligarchy (or timocracy), respectively, and anarchic mob rule is democracy, as #Aristotle used that term..."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/aristocracy

"#oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

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...to be best qualified to rule.

As conceived by the #Greek philosopher #Aristotle (384–322 bce), aristocracy means the rule of the few—the morally and intellectually superior—governing in the interest of all.
Such a form of government differs from the rule of one in the interest of all (#monarchy) and the rule of the many in the interest of all (a form of government...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell

#USpol: #Aristocracy vs. #Oligarchy? #Politics

#Rockbridge vs. The #HeritageFoundation?

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THIS would be "the best" championing the cause of "the people".
They ALL do it in their own self-interest.

No, it is "new money (#PeterThiel et al) vs. "old money, thus still a #Plutocracy:

Via #Britannica.com:

"aristocracy, government by a relatively small privileged class or by a minority consisting of those presumed...

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @violetmadder @benfell @paninid @gilduran

"But the person in the room who would solidify the group’s ambitions was someone with a decidedly lower profile: an Arizona insurance entrepreneur and conservative media figure named Chris Buskirk.

Today, Buskirk helms the #Rockbridge Network, a secretive organization birthed out of the weekend gathering that has established itself as one of the most influential forces in GOP politics."