I really don't disagree with the man. But where I probably disagree with you is that the loosely organized (and highly fractious) elitist cabal that rules this nation is not a gang of socialist intellectuals, its a very capitalist oligarchy and management plutocracy, along with the lawyers and politicians they have bought to administer the State for their benefit. Its not a conspiracy at all, these guys and the collectives they belong to and own are all at war with one another. We're just in the way.

Which, incidentally, is precisely the situation that existed in Germany in the 1920s. The Weimar Republic may have been corrupt and incompetent, but it didn't create the Nazis. The Nazis were not created by the German industrialists and financiers, either. But they were nurtured and bankrolled by them in order to consolidate their own power and to oppose the Communists. Fortunately, we don't have Communists, although I suspect we disagree about that too.

Of course there is no one-to-one correspondence with contemporary USA and the Germany of almost a century ago. The world is a very different place and our two peoples are very different, and our histories are very different. But the parallels are striking and very compelling.

Read Shirer. It really is spooky.