re: No, the ground is rising.
"The only alternative they offer is oligarcy and plutocracy and a free market which is about as unrealistic and utopian as the socialist worker's paradise the other side of the aisle tried to sell us."
So They would be: Warren Buffett: $62.0 billion
George Soros: $9 billion.
Oprah Winfrey: $2.7 billion.
Etc.
Not to mention most of the Media which is owned and controlled by the most wealthiest in American.
Not to mention the huge as yet [if ever] fully accounted for money spent to elect Obama. Though somewhere more than 2 times more money ever spent on any election.