But the danger isn’t just who’s pushing it, it’s how the system amplifies it. The same mechanisms can be used by anyone, anywhere, once the conditions are right.
If we only frame this as a partisan crisis, we miss the structural threat: a breakdown in how truth is recognised, shared, and defended. That’s the deeper fight.
Relative proximity/access to the people that control the levers of political power. Monetary power and the access it grants to material and educational opportunity, same as it's always been.
editors note: American class is most often the product of inheritance + class mobility continues to erode.
I think in the US it's particularly enmeshed in the idea of meritocracy, often in the most corrosive ways. Not only that hard work equals success, but what's considered failure in a meritocratic society is seen as a personal failure, on a moral level.
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editors note: American class is most often the product of inheritance + class mobility continues to erode.