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I want to tell you something you already know. You just haven't said it out loud. Have you ever noticed how the people who run the world all seem to know each other? Not in a networking way. Not in a "we went to the same conference" way. In a family way. They show up at the same weddings. They vacation at the same islands. Their kids go to the same schools. Their money flows through the same banks. And when one of them loses an election? Don't worry. They'll be back. Or their son will. Or their daughter. Or their cousin. Because it's all one family. Here's what the data shows. A University of Sydney study published in the Journal of Democracy looked at 89 countries with sustained democratic periods between 1945 and 2010. The finding? 36 out of 89 countries, 40 percent, had leaders who were children, spouses, or siblings of former leaders . That's not a coincidence. That's a pattern. Another study examined 1,029 presidents and prime ministers across five continents between 2000 and 2017. They found that 12 percent of all world leaders, 119 people, belonged to political families . Defined as having blood or marital ties to someone already in politics, whether a judge, party official, bureaucrat, lawmaker, or president. In Europe, a region we think of as the heart of modern democracy, 13 percent of leaders came from political families, the same rate as Latin America . And when women finally break through to the highest office? Twenty-nine percent of female executives had familial connections to politics, compared to just 10 percent of men . Benazir Bhutto followed her father. Cristina Fernández succeeded her husband. Corazon Aquino's son became president after her. Let's name the names. In the United States, George W. Bush served after his father, George H.W. Bush. In Canada, Justin Trudeau is the son of Pierre Trudeau. In Japan, the Hatoyama family produced two prime ministers. In Sri Lanka, the Bandaranaike family had three prime ministers and one president. In India, the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty provided prime ministers for all but four of the first 42 years of independence .

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