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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Nepotistic succession in the political class

A large, and rapidly growing, percentage of high elected officials are part of politically powerful families. What accounts for this anti-democratic dynamic?

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  • Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:35 PM

    The family jewels.

    Lets breed them out! prima nocta? In my little county if your name is not *********** you can forget about any public office anyway. This is because approximately 79.3% of the entire population are ***********s.

    Although I am not a *********** my first wife (/7.) was, and, even then, we were third cousins, once removed. Which is about as far apart, genetically speaking, as you can get there. You see what I'm getting at - a very limited gene pool.

    So I loaded up the truck and moved away from there. ... Movie stars, swimming pools!

    My point, Glenn, is that it seems to me the number one cause of nepotism (w/ all due respect to all the star-quality comments here) is more a static-declining, highly insular, mostly ignorant (which is not to say stupid), poverty-stricken population ... or else rich as *rockefeller*?

    ...thought you should know.

    bah.

    ps. ~To whom it may concern: I like a little levity to wash down the hard-headed truth as much as the next person ... but you people are getting out-of-hand entirely.

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