Is there a privileged class in the USA?

The simple answer is no.

Now some may think they are from a privileged class, even an elite class. After all, they have been successful in their lives, and so should their children, who they will sponsor and pay for in so many ways. Maybe this happened to them, too. Maybe they even inherited money from some ancestor’s past.

And with so many children benefiting from all their parent's wonderful efforts and sacrifices, perhaps we can breed smart people, and then educate them in the higher schools that will enhance their lives, and hopefully, the nation. Along the way we expect these same children will gain the experience that made their parents so successful in their time. This sounds pretty human to most of us.

The catch is the “breeding”. Now every parent will help their kid most any way they can, and there are a lot of American kids out there who are born smart (through luck I would say), who will also offer good national, state, and local leadership based on their brains, education, and even minimal experience which will late mature over time, one hopes.

And a lot of these future leaders are not from what I call the present day privileged class. American is much bigger than this, much bigger than being a big “high school”.

Now it seems for centuries now, and for good reason I think, that the best schools for educating our young people are found in the NE part of the USA. I am from such a point of view, for example.

But the world has changed, and so have our schools of educating our children. Because the USA is OK, we now have many good schools for educating our children, smart, normal, or dumb. Now that is a parental problem to deal with.

I suspect there will be many years of friction as America changes, in this way, too.

Also. There was a book published, and an idea, about all this, many decades ago. It was called “The Best and the Brightest”, and I enjoyed it. But if this is what we have gotten, then I will shop elsewhere. Mostly the idea shopping around counts.

We in the USA have “bright” people, and should reinforce them in academic terms, and later in elections. We are way past the idea of the NE USA schools educating our young people.

Now if some of these “best” people ruled in their own way by their advice to those who appointed them, then maybe we are in trouble in our national future today. Said another way, can we find better political leaders to go forward?

After all, there are other courses of action, and other leaders we can vote on, also. And they are pretty best and bright, too.