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  • Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 5 years, 2 months ago

    • He does a great job of surveying the problem; but he offers little clarity on putting it all right. “Picking up the flag” and taking up electoral politics in a system which is “rigged, corrupt and broken” (Trump, 2016) does not seem like a recipe for success. Any top-down solution seems a fool’s errand to me. Trump tried for four years and failed. I know that I could not have done any better – needless to say – and probably nobody else could have either. Any successful rectification will have to come from the bottom, not the top. Whether there will be a Partition of America remains to be seen; but it is clearly a solution which some espouse.

      • “Rise up you fools…don’t you see the deception?”
        How does one educate the masses? Math skills are helpful.

        In the lower grades, per-pupil expenditure (in constant dollars) went from $3,200 in 1960 to $13,400 in 2015.
        Actually the inflation index shows the equivalent in 2015 of $3200 in 2015 is about $25,000, not $13,400
        He doesn’t give a reference for his.
        Minor point over all a good synopsis of events.
        Surely beyond my essay skills.
        Change begins with the individual. Sooner or later the collective forms.

        • the thoughts on oligarchy reminded be of the voting issues.
          “The right of suffrage is a fundamental Article in Republican Constitutions. The regulation of it is, at the same time, a task of peculiar delicacy. Allow the right [to vote] exclusively to property [owners], and the rights of persons may be oppressed… . Extend it equally to all, and the rights of property [owners] …may be overruled by a majority without property….” James Madison