Going Downton

The American infatuation with Downton Abbey is telling and timely since we are becoming a class culture and undergoing the infantilization of our electorate and the abandoning of the responsibilities of a democracy, namely not voting authoritarian nuts into high office who got into their position by accident of parentage and the application of money. It fits perfectly with the increasing reality of inherited wealth and reduced social mobility. 

And, wait and see, the disparities are going to skyrocket as anyone who has done the math knows--and that was before yet another election debacle of a victorious moron with monarchical tendencies vowing more tax cuts for the rich. But are we only unwilling at this time to assume the duties of our democracy or incapable? I don't know, but the election of Donald Trump, a truly loathsome and inappropriate guy, argues for incapacity.