>>>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.
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>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.

And yet, over the years, the baby bells got swallowed back up into AT&T.
It's one thing to break 'em up. It's another to make it stick