Youre describing an American ideal that I’ve never seen.

I’m describing an American ideal that no one has ever seen. The entire developed world has been suckered into neoliberalism, which is government captured by business interests. And this has made all of it ripe for far-right movements which will get plenty of funding and support from the plutocratic class, who likes hierarchic social structure, since they’re at the top already.

But the US (and other nations) have moved toward the ideal of a pluralistic liberal democratic society, without quite getting there or fully debugging it.

This time we’re seeing the patrician class as the existential threat that it is. This time we’re seeing the catastrophic risks that our ultra wealthy are facilitating – or at least are allowing to happen without intervention – in their desperation for more wealth and more control, and in their astounding collective incompetence.

This time, we address the threat of wealth disparity, of capture of the political class, of monopolistic powers, or we’ll never have the chance again, at least until the survivors crawl out from their shelters once again, centuries from now.