People argue about what the Founders envisioned for America, but one thing they definitely did not see coming was a titanic political-media Ruling Class that would become completely insulated from the effects of the policies it imposes on the rest of us.
A few bubbled leaders at the top are bad enough, but we ended up with a Ruling Class far larger, richer, and more removed from daily life than the monarchy and aristocracy of old. They just don't live on the same planet as the people they rule over.
If the Ruling Class gets its way, soon only members in good standing will have access to air travel and reliable personal ground transportation. They have no trouble imposing diktats that are literally IMPOSSIBLE for the rest of us to meet, while exempting themselves completely.
The Ruling Class is beginning to see capitalism as something only it can be trusted with, whose fruits only its members should be allowed to enjoy. The Little People will get grubby socialism and be forbidden to complain about its deficiencies.
Statists will argue that effective government must be able to transcend some of the laws it imposes on the private sector. The referees cannot be fully bound by the rules of the game.
But when the State grows as massive as ours has, encrusted with a vast political class that profits from selective enforcement of its rules and dwells in enclaves protected from the consequences of the destructive policies it supports, power becomes divorced from responsibility.
Our Ruling Class is huge, with vast auxiliaries in media and corporate hierarchies, and it's completely protected from the effects of its disastrous policies. Its members scoff at the notion of sharing the fate of the deplorables they consign to crime and ruin.
The schism is most obvious on issues like immigration, where the Ruling Class has zero interest in those who lose jobs, property, and even lives from the endless border stampedes. The Ruling Class gets cheap labor, its jobs are not in danger, it doesn't fear illegal alien crime.
The same schism is increasingly evident in every aspect of statist policy, as the "designated losers" who pay the price of globalist ambition can attest, or the people trapped in urban crime hellholes while the Abolish the Police Party milks racial grievances for profit.
A solid revolution in government will entail stripping the Ruling Class of its protections, exemptions, and special carve-outs. The grotesque spectacle of 2020 and its Pandemic Poobahs should motivate us to bring the elite back down to Earth, hard.
We need "accountability," to be sure, but we also need CONSQUENCES and responsibility. We should not allow the Ruling Class to live in the clouds while the rest of us toil in the earth. No more policies that requires extensive carve-outs and special privileges for the elite. /end
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