OAKLAND, California —The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle warned of the dangers of oligarchy: the rule of the few.
In America today a new oligarchy, independent of any democratic control, has arisen. It seeks to install its ideology through economic coercion, outside of any legal process.
Some of the world’s most powerful banks have set themselves up as an unelected legislature. They impose their decrees with no relation to the laws passed by Congress and the States.
A blatant example is the attempt to ban legal guns by cutting off banking services to the firearms industry.