The conservative Republican pundit in D.C. writes: "It is a bad sign of how centralized wealth and power has become in our
country, that people become obsessed with the government, and try to get
as close to it as possible. Our republic was designed precisely to avoid
such systems of patronage, of clientelism, and yet, that is now all we
do. Forget the fact that transfer payments are the largest part of the
budget. Forget the fact that Washington, D.C. is now the wealthiest part
of the country. This shows, clear as day, that, just like in the
backwardness of Old Europe, the way to get ahead in America is to get to
know the right people. People act this way because they believe it to
be so."
More commentary from Mr. Williams: "We’ve heard a lot about the big, bad 1%. I think that we have a problem
in this country of the dispersal of power, but not in the way that
Occupy Wall Street thinks. We have too much power at the top, and the
top is the political class."
Armstrong Williams Op-Ed: What Time Reveals
