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RE: Caste in America?
Agreed, flat equality would be horrific in its own right. However, as far as I see from outside, the United States is not even close to that! It as you say, the discrepancy between the ideal and the reality is quite stark.
However, change does mean losers... And everyone is keen to protect what they have, even if it is at the cost of a potentially better future.
And those who rely on political plunder, including welfare recipients, corporate cronies, and government employees, all see their shares of tax extortion as a right in a complete perversion of the concept of rights. They have no incentive to real progress, and the leviathan state instead seeks to seduce more and more people into thinking they are net beneficiaries of the system.