Over the past several months, Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders (an Independent in Democratic clothing), Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and some Democratic Socialists seeking election to Congress have been railing and ranting against oligarchs in their fight against what they deem to be an oligarchy.

In our United States, the ruling power of the government presiding over 330 million people is in the very few 552 persons (541 members of Congress, 9 Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1 president, and 1 vice president) — meets the overall definition of an oligarchy! If the U.S. is an oligarchy, then every American who supports that government is, by strict definition, an oligarch.

Giving Sen. Sanders and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez the benefit of the doubt, in that they consider neither themselves, other democrats, democratic socialists, or their supporters as oligarchs, nor the American system of government an oligarchy, then they must be referring to the conservative majority in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Supreme Court, the republican led White House, and their supporters.

Let us suppose this 2026 election, the democrats succeed in defeating republicans and regain both houses of Congress with enough senators and representatives to outnumber the current total number of republicans, including the serving president, vice president, and supreme court justices. Would not then the majority membership of the government become a liberal oligarchy led by democratic oligarchs — Sanders and AOC among them?

Perhaps Sen. Sanders and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s tirades refer only to the republican oligarchy in the White House consisting of the president, vice president, and cabinet secretaries currently supported by conservative oligarchs in Congress. Should a democratic president, vice president, and cabinet secretaries “regain power” and “take control” of the White House in 2028, would they not then become a democratic oligarchy supported by liberal congressional oligarchs?

The definitions of oligarch and oligarchy apply equally to both political parties. Perhaps politicians should learn the definitions of words before employing them against their opponents and every American, while at the same time denying attachment to themselves.

The miss-use of words as name-calls, labels, accusations, and allegations for political and personal gain needs to stop. We the People want, we deserve, cooperation from our elected government not divisiveness. We are Americans first and always! We are neither oligarchs nor deplorables.

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