The divine right of Kings as a belief system --- Is it alive and well in the US?

Question

As Goldman Sachs continues to hand out multiple millions of dollars an upper crust of bankers and others are forming to a level of unprecedented privilage

They deserve it --- they earned it --- they should have it because they have proven themselves smarter etc

The divine right of Kings ? Those who are able to take the money from the stupid the poor the weak should be able to keep it all and live in oppulant luxury with servants while the weak live in squalor

This is the divine right of Kings --- the idea that they are right because they are rich --- they should lead because they do lead --- they are chosen by god and are therefore successful because god made them that way --- they should at all times be respected as your better

Speaking to an audience at St Paul's Cathedral in London about morality in the marketplace last night, Griffiths said the British public should "tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/21/executive-pay-bonuses-goldmansachs

If the master does well the scraps will get bigger if you are nicer to the master --- also an inherent part of the divine right of Kings

Answer 1

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws."

Mayer Amschel Rothschild

[Mayer Amschel Bauer] (1744 -1812), Godfather of the Rothschild Banking Cartel of Europe]

And major share holders of privately owned bank AKA The Federal Reserve Bank.

Answer 2

Under Bush it was alive and well because he wanted to empower the executive so that he could become a despotic King. But now thank God the nightmare is over. Although Obama has a long way to go.

Answer 3

No, Divine Right of Kings is a principle of Monarchy, in the U.S. we're a Plutocracy, here it's Divine Right of the Ones with the Money, that's not the same thing.