The American Revolution: unfinished business.
The banking cartels
The United States of America needs a new political party born of the unfinished business of the American Revolution -- much like Horace Greeley said of the Republican Party when it was created back in the mid 1850s. The Republican Party was originally created to resolve the issue of slavery versus free labor, free land, free speech and free people. The Whig and Democratic Parties failed to resolve the issue and both shattered over internal divisions. The Republican Party that arose in their stead was originally pro-tariff and anti-slavery. The two great American political issues of the Nineteenth Century were slavery and banking. The slavery issue -- at least chattel slavery -- was solved, but the issue of wage-slavery and banking exploitation was never resolved. In fact, the bank monopolies prevailed. Study the debates that surrounded creation of Hamilton's first Bank of the United States. The Congress of the United States farmed out its constitutional currency creating powers to a private banking corporation, setting off a two-hundred year struggle that still threatens to collapse the remains of the republic. Unless we mobilize the citizenry, the international banking/financial interests will extinguish the U. S. before the U. S. can begin to extinguish the banking cartels.
One of Andrew Jackson's attributes, the so-called father of the Democratic Party, successfully fighting the banksters only lasted as long he was in office.
In the meantime, the Federal Reserve and the rest of the Central Banking system of the world have morphed from a cartel into a cabal of the worst kind. In conjunction with large corporations, the Banksters controlling the politicians (government), and the unknowing majority of the people, making them believe to live in a Democracy.
America is an Oligarchy run by some Plutocrats, who are largely admired by the masses, for their Laissez fair acumen, which is often subsidized by taxpayer's dollars.
Unfortunately, the financial system has passed the point of no return. A close to 30 trillion dollars national debt plus hundreds of trillions more in unfunded government obligations are not rectifiable.
Maybe out of the foreseeable financial collapse a new political party will emerge, with wiser and less greedy individuals who believe in true Democracy.