a niche economy

"the abolishing of royalty, the extinguishment of patronage and dependencies attached tot hat form of government, were the exalted motives of many revolutionists and these were the improvements meant by them to be made...These ends and none other were publicly avowed, and all our constitutions and public acts were formed in this spirit. yet there was not wanting a party whose motives were different. they wished for the loaves and fishes of government, and cared for nothing else but a translation of the diadem and scepter from london to boston, new york, or philadelphia; or, in other words, the creation of a new monarchy in america, and to form niches for themselves in the temple of royalty."
william maclays journals 1789-1791 1 may 1789

well...with the counter-revolution embodied in the constitution they succeeded in transplanting an aristocracy and the "patronage and dependencies" as they legislated themselves money from the public purse...james madison (hereafter known as "his littleness") and "that damned ass hamilton" (evil bastard and a combination of martin borman, joe geobbles, and what lenin would have been if he had been a monarchist...and always an ass) created a government by and for special interest to diffuse the political will of and "interested and overbearing majority"[his littleness]...by refusing to seriously address issues brought to them by anything other than an interest group the framers of the constitution subverted energy that might have been applied in a direct confrontation with government by directing it into the confines of an interest group where it was harmlessly expended ( from the ruling elite's perspective) inside those groups as they hashed out their agenda...the ensuing proliferation of interest groups was a conscious strategy to make the political process somewhat predictable...by dividing the polity against itself they set in motion a host of bureaucratic and budgetary nightmares and they did it to protect and expand their position of economic advantage...nothing if not capitalists...we are where we are because they were what they were...the system aint broke, it's functioning as the designers intended...it disenfranchises the masses from any meaningful input into what the elite do to foster their wealth on a daily basis...until the polity gets its collective head out of high school civics...where it was placed by the benign impact of a "free" public education...the whores will continue to have things entirely too much their own way...where's daniel shay's when you need him? pressure needs to be applied from outside the system.