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As I said above, the stuff that pisses you off is an example of the good ole boys network, not the organization...Just as in the OP... it isn't the formal mechanisms that are failing should Drunky McWhitebread get off clean.
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I can see my way to this. However, the question then becomes: "To what degree do the State and the "network" function in concert or opposition? Are they symbiotic, parasitic, antagonistic? My contention is that the State and the "network" have become so closely intertwined as to be all but inseparable, that it is a symbiotic relationship (each gains something), and that the two institutions usually work -very- closely with one another to protect their mutual interests.
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You wanna bitch about something... bitch about how old white men are ruining our country by playing nobility.
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You don't wanna get me started on the Federal Reserve and Title Of Nobility. Now political homogenity and the rise of an un-landed psuedo-aristocracy (Kennedys, Bushes, etc) is a good starting point, but that's for another thread.