Recently Romney came to Vegas to receive the blessing of Donald Trump.
Most of the other Republicans running for President also made their obeisance to Trump. Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, and Sarah Palin, all met with Trump during their campaigns looking for support or an endorsement.
Why? A Fox poll found that only 6% of people would be more willing to vote for someone endorsed by Trump while 41.4% said they would be less likely to vote for someone with Trump's endorsement.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/facebookp...So why is everyone making the trip to kiss Trumps, "ring"? Are they all just begging for some of his money? Is Trump a mafia Don who can make or break the candidate of choice? It is almost as if they consider him a King, and come to him hoping to be granted some title of Nobility.
What after all is Nobility? It is defined by the New English dictionary as a socially or politically privileged class whose titles are conferred by descent or by royal decree.
When the founders of this nation crafted the Constitution it was meant to prevent the abuses of power in Europe from occurring here. Many of the people who came to this country were fleeing religious oppression so the framers of the Constitution forbade the institution of an official religion and allowed the freedom of religious expression.
People then were angry with the corporations because the king had given the East India corporation the right to tax Americans. In the new nation the corporations were given temporary charters that were usually revoked when the job (the bridge, road, etc.) was completed.
Many of the people came to this country fleeing the economic inequality of Europe. All of the power and most of the wealth in Europe went to the nobility, the 1%, and the other 99% of the people lived in dire poverty. That system of political privilege was called Feudalism.
The framers of the Constitution expressly forbade the giving of any titles or the acceptance of any gifts because it did not want feudalism in the United States. The framers gave birth to the American Dream where any person no matter what their background or station in life, could become successful, when they included the Nobility Clause in the Constitution.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:
"No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_No...Today we have no kings or princes, but we do have nobility. All of the same problems and inequality inherent with feudalism are back with the neofeudalism of the rich and the corporations. The rich and the corporations control the government and dictate the laws. They control most of the wealth and the power in the nation
The American Dream is dead, because a good education, and a good job are a privilege only the rich can afford.
The average income of our Congressmen is $900,000/yr. They bestow benefits on those who pledge their fealty. All of the power is not in the hands of government however. One family in Vegas has single handedly sponsored the campaign of Newt Gingrich with $11 million in donations, but Newt was crushed by five to one spending by the Mitt Romney PACS which were driven by only 200 millionaires. The rich are simply buying the votes of the people. They are buying the election.
When The Republicans come to pledge their fealty to Trump, they are merely recognizing that we have entered the new state of Neofeudalism that they envision. It is no longer a Democracy if corporations and the rich can spend unlimited amounts without having to disclose what they are giving. They envision a nation run by, of, and for the rich, the powerful, and the corporations. A nation for the 1% .
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/garrett-jo...The rest of us are just serfs.