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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?

Glenn Greenwald

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 08:42 AM

but it would make life so much easier -

if we would know our politicians right away by their names - Like if it's a 'Clinton' it can not be

an honest plumber and if it's a Bush it can not be a surgeon - like in good old Europe where you can identify whole professions by their names - because that's where this madness started that the son (brother, cousin, nephew) of a doctor, lawyer, plumber tried to pick the same job as his father - and I always understood why the son of a plumber or a doctor or a Hollywood producer would try to pick his father's job- but to become a 'politician'? Isn't that still one of most despised job on this planet? - Just right after being a lawyer?!

—pieceofcake Read pieceofcake's other letters

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