Congress is legally allowed to inside trade in the stock market, they vote themselves pay raises whenever they want, they become millionaires within two terms and usually get reelected. If that is not the ruling class, I don't know what is.
Yes… This is the Marxist\Jihadi Zohran Mamdani.
“We came here to remake the state in the image of our people.”
Power in China did not begin in Beijing’s halls. It began in Shanghai’s underworld, where the boundaries between crime and politics vanished. The Red Syndicate investigates how that fusion of loyalty, money, and fear still shapes the world today.
https://csevaluation.substack.com/p/the-red-syndicate-inside-the-architecture