Eliminating the Aristocracy

If we are to efficiently eliminate the Aristocracy we must put on our German hats. I know it was the French that made a bloody successful mess of grass roots revolution but they went from mob to demigod (Napoleon) so rapidly as to negate the positive effects of the end of aristocracy. So too the proletariat revolution in Russia that bypassed demagoguery and morphed a monolith. The Americans were a revolution of the nouveau riche v. the established rich. Essentially we are still a manifest driven slave society. Black slaves to immigrant slaves to disenfranchised working poor. The missing element in all of these revolutions is the redistribution of wealth and power.

Hitler's mistake was scapegoating the Jews, Homo's, Gypsy's and the disabled. Schicklgruber was a power hungry wannabe. All of his evil machinations aided industry. Go to the moon and you get tang and teflon. Murder 6 million humans and you get a Volkswagon. The attractiveness of German efficiencies amounts to the preference for tidy murder over messy murder. Mao killed 150 million but his picture is still up in Red Square.

Risking sounding like a Republican I say the American Aristocracy should die the death of 1,000 cuts. Close loopholes, cut credits, no more free chips to bet with, reduce taxes, increase the tithe. The government deserves no new wealth because they spend it so badly but the rich should be charitable (at the point of a gun if neccesary). Bill Gates is a good man but he's still too rich, at least he targets disease and ignorance as receipients of his wealth and is not sponsoring golf tournaments. If obscene wealth were outlawed capitalism would return to fundamentals. A good mother or a great teacher is worth a million bucks, Derek Jeter is worth a million bucks and that might be too much. Greenspan was right, markets do work, eliminate fraud and greed and the invisible hand holds sway.

If 2% control 20% then in a population of 300 million that's only 600,000 to the block. Someone contact the ghost Eichmann, this should only take 6 months or so. Brad Pitt please report to the office.