"My enemy's enemies...?"

                                                                                                Юлий Ганф

A Soviet-era cartoon from the 1950s satirizing American politics.

quote unquote: Brandeis on metasticizing wealth

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

Social Contract: Income-Inequality Gap Widens; Highest Since 1920's

Greg Ip of The Wall Street Journal reports, "The richest Americans' share of national income has hit a postwar record, surpassing the highs reached in the 1990s bull market, and underlining the divergence of economic fortunes blamed for fueling anxiety among American workers."
The rest of the story: The Wall Street Journal
See also, "As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West": The New York Times
See also, "new gilded age": Google