``Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order. [...] A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment -- the ruling class -- is not supposed to be discussed.''
-Arthur S. Miller, George Washington University law professor (deceased)

Most readily enlist in the establishment. It is dominated by collectivism, in general, and socialism, in particular. Most people understand they do not individually have the potential to compete economically, in a fair contest, with the prodigious producers among the world's population. The non-producers (an overwhelming majority whose values are shaped principally by the state-controlled education and mass media apparatuses) vote in elections to empower the despots to impose progressive income taxes This is democratic socialism and it enslaves the producers. The producers in time deny their products to the rest, recognizing that such service is aid and comfort to their enemy. The syndicates of the despots and their majorities of fools are fleeting bankruptcies.


President Woodrow Wilson (in The New Freedom, 1913) wrote of the western establishment:

``Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.''