" The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War. "

― Hunter S. Thompson , Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century