> created a top-down society that can scarcely be called America. Really? The U.S. is notably less top-down than many other places that either of us could name

> created a top-down society that can scarcely be called America. Really? The U.S. is notably less top-down than many other places that either of us could name. And nostalgia for an imagined bygone "British" past is unproductive.