I think it was Eleanor Roosevelt who said that "no one can make you inferior without your permission".  My problem is that American citizens appear to have colluded in their debasement - quite why I do not know:  Perhaps misplaced loyalty to their founding myths, perhaps nostalgia for a simpler time when social mobility through hard work was a reality for many, perhaps a perverted religious piety.  But you can only take blaming the MSM so far.  At the end of the day people have to buy into that sort of stuff, and if they stop listening ad stop watching and turn to the internet and other sources of information the MSM have a problem.  And what the hell is a "post-democratic state" anyway?  You have to buy into that debasement of democracy for it to be possible.  Most Americans have an amazingly positive "CAN-DO" attitude to life.  It's time they really did democracy and did for the plutocrats.

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