"What are Sarah Palin, Rob Ford, Don Cherry or Julian Assange if not angry birds? What are political leaders, investment bankers, coddled bureaucrats and other grasping elites if not egg-stealing pigs? What are parliaments, banks and multinational corporations if not soaring stone, glass and steel strongholds protecting the privileged? ...
"Like most overnight phenomena, this one has been a long time coming. Little by little, by stealth and increment, the command-and-control that we-the-people took centuries to strip from kings, queens and courtiers has been retaken by the new overlords. ...
"Now at the very pinnacle of political success, the Prime Minister, his ministers and acolytes make a point of looking down their noses at the privileged 'elites' they hope no one will notice that they have become."
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