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49. Lol and moan. Please. Don't degrade an important

Political concept.

Your dentist is in the top 1%, the one you run into at the store now and then, and, sure, could be considered an oligarch in his own small business. The unmarried RN down the street is in the top 2-3%, not an oligarch unless she's Nurse Rached, by your definition. The principal of the nearest grade school, definitely a dictator and oligarch, except when dealing with her bosses.

That is not what we're talking about when we worry that a small group is destroying democracy and plotting to turn us all into workers helpless to oppose their power. We're talking about oligarchs, the real thing, but especially plutocrats.

Plutocracy: A government or state in which the wealthy rule.

We're talking the top 0.01 to 0.001% of Americans here. People who count their wealth in hundreds of millions and billions. People who will never see most major boulevards wherever they go or notice how rundown they are becoming because they go almost everywhere by private plane, helicopter, and ships. They are driven in limousines from their elite, manicured communities to to private expensive gates and doors at airports, concert halls, government offices, etc, which are maintained only for them.

Do you know we have over 550 billionaires in the U.S. Half of all on the planet? We have tens of thousands who count their wealth in the hundreds of millions. Because they're funneling our national wealth into their pockets, and the most greedy of them are trying very hard to increase their ravaging of our nation, and humbling of its people.

I think some respect for the danger they pose is in order. We're not talking about our dentists here.