"...But I do think that the Republican Party wants to keep a large segment of the working class without rights, by refusing to make them citizens, and therefore to make it easier to keep political power in the hands of our economic elite. That in turn increases resentment between citizens and non-citizens among the lower half of the population, making it harder for them to unite to reverse the growing trend towards inequality. The question before the country is whether we truly want to undo all the gains of the last 120 years or so and return to an era of oligarchy and deeply flawed democracy...." DK
We don't have a working class. The term class is a Whig misnomer. We just have individuals from various ethnic and national groups and backgrounds getting whatever jobs they can. They do not see themselves as a class. On the contrary.
Citizens and non-citizens among the lower half have never united for anything, and never will.
Inequality is not so much the problem for the lower half, but rather global income convergence and obsolescence, rendering them less and less valuable in the global workplace, daily, in spite of gains in productivity in general.
There is no general question before the country.
The country has always been a species of oligarchy.
The country has always been deeply flawed by democracy itself.
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