>>I know, this's not my business, but I couldn't hold mine, Rainer Becker's shares a say at Facebook about Hilary Clinton would be your next president...
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>>Father Bush, son Bush, Husband Clinton, wife Clinton. You say, this demoracy, not oligarchy? :)))
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>To answer your point about families - remember that we had the Kennedy family for a few decades. That sort of faded over time. The Bush family has faded, and I don't think Jeb Bush has enough strength to win. These things just happen over time.

Actually, Metin has the right word here - "oligarchy" but the power rests with corporations, not families.
That can change, as TR showed during the early part of the 20th century.
The corporations were even more powerful then than they are now and he broke them up.
In my lifetime, the government-dictated breakup of AT&T was a profound event.
It's probably safe to say that there would not have been an internet had that not happened.