If you haven't gotten a chance yet to read the essay America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution that was recently in the American Spectator, you should do so. It is long (took me about 5-10 minutes to read through it), but very well done. What I do like about the essay is that it lays out quite clearly the two classes that are evolving in our nation- what Codevilla calls the 'ruling class' and the 'country class.' Codevilla echo's what I tell my students every year- it is getting increasingly important to understand how the ruling class in our society works and how they use government to maintain their ruling status, because our society is increasingly about what the government does and less so about what you do. Oh, I also enjoyed how Codevilla explained how we have gotten to this state. What I didn't like about the essay is the end of it- although Codevilla identifies the problem and describes it exactly, he does not lay out a remedy for the problem. He writes about how some time in the future a third party should be created, but as I have written about before, that's not a realistic option (see my posts US Has Two Party System- Deal With It and Vote Republican and Libertarians Screwed Themselves Again by Not-Voting or Voting Libertarian).
Please take some time though to read the full essay- it is one of the most inspiring and inspired pieces of commentary that I have read in some time.
UPDATE: I've already picked up on some of this when I noticed that the The New Counter Culture in today's youth is Liberty:
So what then is the new counter culture? It is those people who love liberty and freedom- the new counter-culture are those people who have been raised on the soaring rhetoric of the Bible and the Declaration of Independence- the new rebels are the old rebels once again, those who fight against tyranny and oppression again.
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