President William McKinley Campaigned on "Trickle Down" Economics. By Promoting Government Actions That Would Make Rich People Richer He Received Vast Campaign Contributions from The Ruling Class in the USA. Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller... And Then...

HE WAS ASSASSINATED BY AN ANARCHIST.

1896 Election: Republican McKinley represented Eastern conservative mercantile and industrial interests; Democrat William Jennings Bryan stood for Western radical agrarian interests. 

Causes of the French Revolution: The Rich were Just Too Greedy and The Peasants Cut Off Their Heads... 

Throughout the late 1700s, a class of wealthy middlemen who connected producers emerged; the bourgeois. These bourgeois played a fundamental role in the French economy, accounting for 39.1% of national income despite only accounting for 7.7% of the population.

"Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", Spoken in the 17th or 18th century by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread.


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