If we worship oligarchs who identify with oligarchs abroad, we are in trouble. Republics die from wealth inequality. At the time when the United States was established, the most notable republic was the Polish-Lithuanian one, which had existed at that point for more than two hundred years. Thanks to enormous inequality of wealth, native oligarchs and then foreign empires captured its parliament. Like the Athenians before them, the wiser Poles then realized that oligarchs in one country have more in common with oligarchs in another country than with their own people. This history is forgotten
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