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Power doesn’t always announce itself as left or right. Sometimes it shows up as volume—the loudest factions drowning out everyone else.
In 1889, “The Bosses of the Senate” warned how powerful interests hijacked democracy. The imagery still fits. Big forces run the game while regular people watch from the cheap seats.
Not all Republicans are MAGA and not all MAGA are extremists. Same with Democrats—not all are Antifa, and not all Antifa burn buildings.
The truth is simpler:
The extremes hijack the narrative while the middle stays quiet.
Chicago is a perfect case study. We’ve got political extremists running City Hall because they understood turnout, messaging, and mobilization.
They didn’t win by representing a majority—they won because the majority stayed silent.
And that pattern isn’t new.
The extremes fight for power over the middle:
To tax them, control them, squeeze them, or profit off them.
As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 13:
The fundamental defect of the existing Confederation… is its want of… energy in government, and unity in action …
Warning that without a strong, unified center, fragmented interests end up dominating the whole.
That dynamic is spreading across the country.
If the middle doesn’t wake up, organize, and vote with clarity, the loud fringes—left and right—will keep controlling the levers of power.
The Bosses of the Senate, Joseph Keppler’s 1889 cartoon depicts monopolists as dominating American politics during the rise of industry in the Gilded Age, the expanding influence of monopolies and trusts, and the role of American lobbying. It is generally recognized as an early antitrust cartoon that played a role in the development of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
