=( boo hoo

in the most pessimistic of lights, the US is hardly more than just another conquering empire built on the backs of slaves. A massive nation governed by a vaguely aristocratic elite who are in turn influenced by the hereditarily wealthy, the owners of the banks and corporations; the rich, new and old. It's way more that than any masonic conspiracy BS.

The founding fathers may have been individually selfless, no one believing himself too superior to another, but they were predominantly slavers and they were predominantly full of themselves (some, perhaps deservedly so). They were also predominantly "self made" men, being the right combination of preparedness and circumstance, the elite amongst the colonists and although not an exclusive order, they certainly saw themselves as the decision-making group of the whole. I imagine there to be a lot of people like our founding fathers running around, sleeping with whatever they want, not wanting to pay their taxes, breaking rules, making rules to bend, looking for loopholes, fond of expressing themselves and certainly charismatic. I think it's very much the same people who run things today. Opportunists and lechers the like. Though I think we prefer to imagine them much more egalitarian, honest, moral and just.