I think you seriously underestimate the toxicity of the federal and state bureaucracies. Once someone asked me why people like me (conservative homeschoolers, I think he meant) get our pants in a twist over the fear that Hilary Clinton will take our children and don't fear rapacious big business being allowed to pollute our neighborhoods or whatever particular expression of corporate evil was fashionable at the moment. The answer, that people who aren't raising children in North America never fully grasp until they run into an example that affects them personally, is that the complex of social welfare bureaucracies represented by Mrs. Clinton is a direct and present threat that has actually harmed my family. The fear of social services that American (and Canadian) families live under is something that seems to be totally invisible to people writing this kind of analysis. The divorce industry, supported by the family courts, is also invisible. Less frightening, but perhaps even more disgusting, is the foul rats' nest of American public education.
Perhaps you deal with this in your next piece. But the idea that federal and state employees aren't doing things that cause legitimate fear and rage? I guess it's possible to imagine a system based on fairness and justice and working for the common good, but no American my age has much experience with one. (Public health still works.) We have experience with a public education system that has been hijacked by racial ideologues, a family court system that has been hijacked by feminists, and a social services system that has probably been hijacked directly by Satan.
I understand your disgust at the rising aristocracy, but personally, my biggest problem with them is that they are so stupidly uncivic-minded. I figure eventually the penny will drop and the superwealthy will start giving real support to the pro-family movement (ugh that's an ugly phrase, but you know what I mean) instead of lip service.
Alternatively, life extension and exogenesis will create a posthuman class of extremely long-lived aristocrats and the rest of us are screwed.
I would throw myself on the mercy of a wealthy man before I would throw myself on the mercy of Ameri
Perhaps you deal with this in your next piece. But the idea that federal and state employees aren't doing things that cause legitimate fear and rage? I guess it's possible to imagine a system based on fairness and justice and working for the common good, but no American my age has much experience with one. (Public health still works.) We have experience with a public education system that has been hijacked by racial ideologues, a family court system that has been hijacked by feminists, and a social services system that has probably been hijacked directly by Satan.
I understand your disgust at the rising aristocracy, but personally, my biggest problem with them is that they are so stupidly uncivic-minded. I figure eventually the penny will drop and the superwealthy will start giving real support to the pro-family movement (ugh that's an ugly phrase, but you know what I mean) instead of lip service.
Alternatively, life extension and exogenesis will create a posthuman class of extremely long-lived aristocrats and the rest of us are screwed.