Louis Brandeis once said, "we can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we can't have both." It's part of a long American tradition that abhors the gathering of power into just a few hands. 1/
ALT A picture of a flooded suburban street with a streetsign reading '25th St SW' protruding from the water; behind it is a Soviet editorial cartoon of a cigar-chomping plutocrat. He is standing before a control box with a large, dollar-sign-shaped lever. He is pulling the lever. He holds up one gloved hand. Dangling from that hand is the US Capital Dome.
Image:
MrT HK (modified)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrthk/13702914634
CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/