Quote: (05-21-2014 01:40 AM)cardguy Wrote:
Do the giant industrial/banking groups of a hundred years ago still run the world?
The Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Morgans etc?
I am a little skeptical about this. But not sure what to think either way.
It feels like a lazy conspiracy theory to say that the world is still run by a few families. Since that oversimplifies the world. And also - because most wealthy families are too busy living a playboy lifestyle to care about political power.
Jeb Bush is a possibility in 2016. So is Hillary Clinton that same year. I'm middle-aged but not old, and yet in my (short) lifetime I've already had two presidents from the same family. And already looking at the possibility of having a third from the same family, or the wife of a previously sitting president.
It's not a "lazy conspiracy theory".