how stupid is America’s ruling class?
Trump’s election has made the role of the ruling class even more obvious but there is the danger that we may see that as a Trump abberation rather than a feature of western democracy.
Both Democracts and Republicans are beholden to plutocrats; Hilary Clinton’s throwaway line referring to Trump supporters as ‘deplorables’ reveals that attitude.
Throughout the West politicians routinely invoke the social contract but one of the arguments for that contract is that the parties to the social contract ‘must be situated reasonably, that is fairly or symmetrically with no one having superior bargaining advantages over the rest.
This critical foundation is missing in the social and economic arrangements that dominate existing political systems.
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