{"id":4047,"date":"2007-11-12T12:20:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/more-on-dynasties-and-democracy\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T12:20:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T19:20:21","slug":"more-on-dynasties-and-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/more-on-dynasties-and-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Dynasties and Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from Eric, a reader, who elaborates on the theme of my column today on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=11894\">Dynasties and Democracy<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wish to point out that there have been other American observers who noted the rise of dynastic politics in the United States . To be specific: Kevin Phillips, in his book <em>American Dynasty: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit \">Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush<\/a><\/em>, published in 2004. The key point the book makes is that four generations of the Bush family have been involved with the rise of the national security state. There have been other prominent political families throughout America history, but stronger parties and strong public sentiment kept it under control. The Republican Party in the 14 elections between 1952 and 2004, has nominated either Richard Nixon or a Bush family member on the presidential\/vice presidential ticket in 11 of those elections. This streak is unprecedented in American history. Here are the details:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nRichard Nixon \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1952 VP, 1956 VP, 1960 Pres, 1968 Pres, 1972 Pres<br \/>\nGeorge Herbert Walker Bush \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1980 VP, 1984 VP, 1988 Pres, 1992 Pres<br \/>\nGeorge Walker Bush \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 2000 Pres, 2004 Pres<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe three exceptions during the period: 1964, 1976, 1996<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Democratic Party only has one streak that even approaches this in length:<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nFranklin Delano Roosevelt \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 1920 VP, 1932 Pres, 1936 Pres, 1940, Pres, 1944 Pres<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This fits in neatly with the premise of <a href=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=11894\">my piece<\/a>: that the rise of political\u00c2\u00a0 dynasties is linked to our interventionist foreign policy. Since the War Party <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2001834779_jackson12m.html\">took up residence<\/a> in the GOP, the dynastic factor has weighed\u00c2\u00a0heavily in their internal politics. And of course the reign of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.253.104\/search?q=cache:BQjnNUF2Q2cJ:hnn.us\/roundup\/entries\/3107.html+%22dr.+win+the+war%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ct=clnk&#038;cd=5&#038;gl=us\">Dr. Win-the-War<\/a>&#8221; fits the same pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter from Eric, a reader, who elaborates on the theme of my column today on &#8220;Dynasties and Democracy&#8220;: I wish to point out that there have been other American observers who noted the rise of dynastic politics in the United States . To be specific: Kevin Phillips, in his book American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4047"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}