Where do all the knuckle-heads come from?

    Ludwig von Mises opined that the progeny of capitalists become the greatest opponents of the system!  'The cousins derive their revenues from the firm or corporation. But they are foreign to business life and know nothing about the problems an entrepreneur has to face. They have been brought up in fashionable boarding schools and colleges, whose atmosphere was filled by a haughty contempt for banausic money-making. Some of them pass their time in nightclubs and other places of amusement, bet and gamble, feast and revel, and indulge in expensive debauchery. Others amateurishly busy themselves with painting, writing, or other arts. Thus, most of them are idle and useless people.'


     So, in order to redress  the wrong of not having inherited the reins of the corporation, they drift into politics and seize the reins of the State—a confiscatory monopoly with the exclusive right to use power over its citizens and to wage war.  Is it any wonder that the progressive agenda has resulted in so many wars?—War Against Poverty, War Against Drugs, War Against Ghadaffi, War Against Sadam Hussein, ...  And that the hawks are such grandiose mediocrities like Sir Edward Kennedy ...