How did America come to be “governed” by an entrenched ruling class, and what can we do about it? It’s human nature to see to “first things, first”; to steward our own households’ immediate needs before diverting focus outward. In a peaceful, prosperous, and largely well-ordered society (where the average person does not face physical peril in the course of routine living), WE HAVE THIS LUXURY. In fact, we expect that having entrusted those we elect with overseeing law enforcement, basic infrastructure, foreign relations, and other civic affairs, we are free to live our lives.
This, paradoxically, is the precise reason that the cultivation of a “ruling class” becomes inevitable; a noxious weed that becomes ever-more invasive, intrusive, and oppressive; threatening to consume the very society it was entrusted to serve. And while this is happening, be it years or decades in process, most people will be reluctant to risk anything on the “home front” in pursuit of correcting the problem. Only when sufficient numbers of people suffer a “nearly nothing to lose” position at the hands of such oppression is consequential revolt likely.
Tytler’s Cycle has often been used to show this path.
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