I’ll say this about the English, while they had an actual aristocracy that mattered and had a stake in the well being of the kingdom, they did a very good job of reforming just enough to release the pressure over centuries. There were occasional boil overs but the ruling class understood that in addition to the privilege, they had responsibility to the masses and it was in no one’s interest to break the damned country.
We don’t have that. We have the worst of all worlds. We have dumb people who think they are smart, who have no allegiance to anything or anyone but themselves, who view all criticism as a threat to their existence, who know nothing but to mock, ridicule, and double down. Every single thing in this country now is run like the Ukraine War. Just ignore reality and double down. When reality finally can be ignored no more and it all comes crashing down, simply pretend it never happened/doesn’t exist and move on to to the next thing without a hint of humility, chagrin, or desire to learn from past failures.
I can’t help but think that the rest of the world must think we are absolutely insane.
