Good King Michael the First?
"Well, what have we got--a Republic or a Monarchy?"
"A Republic, if you can keep it."
Reply attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Right
off the bat let me assure my readers that this is not a personal attack
on the billionaire Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg. The word is
that Bloomberg is a very fine mayor, one of the best that New York has
ever had.
This is more like a riddle,
Question: "When is a republic not a republic?
Answer: "When it's for sale."
I
am convinced that the principal problem of the United States more than
its endless wars, more than the devastation of climate change, more
than
anything else, is the way that its politics are financed.
The foundational idea of government of the people, by the people and
for the people is completely short circuited at every turn by way US
politics is financed today.
Bloomberg is a product of this system, not its cause. He has simply taken it to its logical conclusion.
Like ABC: Government in the USA is for sale and Bloomberg has bought some.
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