We are now a Banana Republic complete with brazenly corrupt elections and a rapidly developing caste system. All is good if you are connected to government job or pension. Otherwise, you are mostly SOL.
“We are now a Banana Republic complete with brazenly corrupt elections and a rapidly developing caste system. “
The nation has experienced corrupt elections in the past and survived them. The 1824, 1876, 1960, and now 2020 arguably being the most corrupt. The evolution into a rigid caste system, combined with electronic manipulation of votes, is a death knell for the Republic. Graduation from an Ivy League institution is already almost a requirement to serve as President and Supreme Court Justice. Ivy League grads have an inside track to key positions in major corporations, federal courts, academia, the mainstream media, and many other leadership positions in society.
With the exception of some token affirmative action admissions, the Ivy League schools admit almost exclusively the children of alumni and children of the upper 1% leadership class.
The founders rejected the inherited titled aristocracy of Europe in favor of fluid social mobility based on merit. The elimination of hereditary class membership resulted in social mobility and innovation unmatched by any other nation on the planet.
We have now moved into a society where social and political mobility is controlled by families with strong ties to the elite universities or big government and the allied political parties which have gamed the system to prevent upstart third parties from threatening them. Likewise the domination of key industries by oligopolistic huge corporations allied with the big state, result in less competition, less innovation, and fewer opportunities for social and economic mobility.
The crushing of already struggling small business by government in this Covid pandemic will result in destruction of the only remaining engine of social and economic mobility in our society. The most recent stimulus bill gave billions in stimulus to big business and left small business in the dust.