re: #161 freetoken

In working on my family tree I have become more appreciative of just how our society has changed, or not.

Projecting forward, I have a hard time avoiding the idea that we will turn into a hybrid between a feudal state and a meritocracy.

Something akin to periods in Chinese history.

A very small number of people will own great wealth - by which I mean land and water. Then there will be the professionals who service the overlords. Then there will be the great unwashed masses.

That may be the GOP vision. But if we can get the votes for progressive change we can create a more robust redistributionist welfare state such as exists in much of Europe to avoid that fate. That may be Trump’s long term gift to us, by handing the GOP to white nationalists and sealing a democratic coalition of the growing American demographic groups.