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We are in the process of building up a new aristocracy. This process has repeated itself over all of history.
by maxxxxx 8y ago
We are in the process of building up a new aristocracy. This process has repeated itself over all of history.
- strikelaserclaw 8y agoHell yea, look at our presidents, we got legacy admissions for the biggest job in America.
- maxxxxx 8y agoIt would be nice if somebody like Truman got elected. Somebody who had real experience how the regular citizen lives.
- InitialLastName 8y agoYou're right. Now, if only we could agree on what the "regular citizen's" life looks like. a) It's probably a woman, since they're the majority of the population and have a distinctly different life experience to men b) It's probably someone who lives in a city, since that was 80% of Americans in the 2010 census.
- maxxxxx 8y agoI would be happy if that person didn’t come from an Ivy League school and whose parents aren’t multimillionaires.
- strikelaserclaw 8y agoHonestly they probably can't do worse.