Thank you. I wish it wasn't so, but I believe it is.

Kind of like ancient Rome that way. The patricians always run the show and the plebes get bread and circuses...enough to keep them pacified most of the time.

It's like that in Canada too. No matter which party we elect, the same BS just keeps happening over and over again. The rich get richer. The general social infrastructure deteriorates gradually. We get embroiled in foreign wars that were not of our choosing and are not in our collective interest. Our young men (and women) die for nothing on some distant piece of foreign land.