Nepotism…ain’t it grand…? /snark
If you follow the links to the NY Times piece, you’ll see a link to a pdf about the Clintons and a poll of what Americans think of Dynasties.
Sadly, a country that was founded on independence and getting away from a kingdom and its dynasty…has brain-dead people who don’t see a big problem apparently, with once again having kings and queens, absent crowns and coronations. This is not good, folks. Not good at all. We have the powerful promoting their own. And more importantly…protecting their own….then it becomes about their own interests that suits the family instead of what is best for the country.
By the way, here’s a list of the political families of the U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_political_families_%28B%29
A well-connected family helps if you want to be in Congress:
Across all Congresses — House and Senate — from 1789 to 1986, nearly nine percent of legislators came from families that had previously sent a member to Congress. The prevalence of these dynastic legislators has decreased over time. “While 11 percent of legislators were dynastic between 1789 and 1858, only 7 percent were dynastic after 1966,” the authors write. And that number has been mostly flat, according to an October 2013 analysis by Chris Wilson of Time, who found that 6.9 percent of current House and Senate members — 37 in total — come from dynastic families.
As for senators, 13.5 percent have come from dynastic families, versus only 7.7 percent of representatives. One of the key findings of the dynasty paper is that political power is self-perpetuating: “Legislators who hold power for longer become more likely to have relatives entering Congress…
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