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—“A republic will always end up run by an aristocracy or an oligarchy. In the case of the (originally) aristocratic republic of the US, incremental democratization (esp. after 1828), mass lower class immigration and democratic control of the popular media (industrialization of propaganda)was the means by which a largely foreign oligarchy was able to supplant the formerly ruling WASP aristocracy in the 20th c. to the detriment of us all.”—Scott De Warren