Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise

On Oligarchy in the Republic

The Ideology of the One Percent (Class Series, Essay 8)

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Richard L. Johnson
Sep 28, 2025
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“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Every republic has faced the danger of concentration: the drift of wealth into the hands of the few, and the transformation of prosperity into oligarchy. The United St…

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