Only Paranoiacs Distrust Their Ruling Class...

So scoff our betters, of course, via a paranoiac hangout-

The highest levels of the Obama administration are infested with members of a shadowy, elitist cabal intent on installing a one-world government that subverts the will of the American people.

It sounds crazy, but that’s what a group of very persistent conspiracy theorists insists, and they point to President Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as the latest piece of evidence supporting their claims.

It turns out that Sebelius – like top administration economists Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker, as well as leading Obama diplomats Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross – is a Bilderberger. That is, she is someone who has participated in the annual invitation-only conference held by an elite international organization known as the Bilderberg group...

Past participants have included Margaret Thatcher, who attended the 1975 meeting at Turkey’s Golden Dolphin Hotel, former media mogul Conrad Black, who has been to more than a dozen conferences, and Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Juan Carlos of Spain and top officials of BP, IBM, Barclays and the Bank of England...

The fulminating is aggravated by Obama's preference for surrounding himself with well-credentialed, well-connected, and well-traveled elites. His personnel choices have touched a populist, even paranoid nerve among those who are convinced powerful elites and secret societies are moving the planet toward a new world order.

Their worldview, characterized by a deep and angry suspicion of the ruling class rather than any prevailing partisan or ideological affiliation, is widely articulated on overnight AM radio shows and a collection of Internet websites...<

Now, there is no question the One has surrounded himself with "...well-credentialed, well-connected, and well-traveled elites". No red flags, there, from the people at Politico. There seems to be no problem with acknowledging the "ruling class", either. What our journalistic elite seem to have problems with is the sense of "deep and angry suspicion" out here where the far left wing of cyberspace meets the far right and agrees the Constitution is in deep, deep trouble.

We feel this way for many of the same reasons. Elites fit better in an Empire than a Republic. We didn't like Bu$hCo-Cheneyburton carrying "the white man's burden". Should we be more comfortable with a pseudo African-Amerikan figurehead Leader than a pseudo South Texas oilman?

But let's allow a little illumination of the Illuminati. They don't sit up at night plotting to take over the world. Our betters simply think a lot about how to make as much money as they possibly can, in a world more crowded and with less resources to exploit every day. Naturally, they prefer the company and association of people with the Right Stuff.

They don't plot to take over your world, but they'd prefer you kept your place, serving them in theirs.

They don't have to plot to take over our world. They already own it. They already own you.

They're the ruling class, and we are the ruled.