re: #125 elbruce

They were mostly wealthy landowners. Ben Franklin ran a printing press, which is about as much “control of the media” as you could have back then. But I think “the richer guy wins” was pretty well established even then. The notion of the “populist outsider” politician didn’t really form until Andrew Jackson came along, and even then he had a tough time elbowing his way into being accepted by the political establishment.

I find it ironic that the anti-big-government people are pro big-money. Of course that’s always been the case with well indoctrinated Americans who see money as a sort of virtue even amongst the lowest form of the ultra-rich. They would simply replace big-government with big-corporatism.