His peripatetic youth taught him about the price of plutocracy.
But what 30 years of plutocracy have brought is an era of un-representative democracy.
Phillips, for instance, puts Theodore Roosevelt's administration squarely in the camp of democracy and progressivism and the Clinton administration in the camp of plutocracy and conservatism.
Clinton was certainly not in T.R.'s class as a reformer, but he was by no means a friend of plutocracy.
At a time when the country is in such trouble — and executives are asking for bailouts — anything that smacks of plutocracy is going to arouse justifiable populist anger.
If there is a whiff of plutocracy in the American system, it is here, in the shadows of public ignorance and indifference, where the political business of politicised capitalism is conducted.
The American version of plutocracy is noteworthy for its crassness.
America appears to be headed in the direction of Plutocracy.
The State must never "becom[e] the tool of plutocracy" (para. 36).
What a message such servants of plutocracy send: Democrats -- a bridge to the past.
