Americans labor under the belief that they are a free people. We get to elect our leaders, after all, and are protected by the Bill of Rights. We’re not like those poor saps in shithole countries like Venezuela. Our elections are as pure as the driven snow. Our “representatives” are breathtakingly brilliant. Be wary lest you believe otherwise.
As my book Survival of the Richest demonstrated so convincingly, there is very little upward mobility in this free country of ours. There doesn’t seem to be a meritocracy in any field that I’m aware of. This includes the world of sports, the subject of the current book I’m writing. It certainly doesn’t include those who run our government. A meritocracy is impossible when so many factors, from the Old Boys network to Affirmative Action, prevent it. In my 44 years of being gainfully employed in our rigged job market, I rarely if ever saw the logical person promoted. You know, the one who actually deserved it. On a national level, we never see any legislation passed that benefits the majority of the people. That actually makes things better. None of this is by accident. As Harry Truman’s Secretary of Defense James Forrestal said, before they pushed him out of a window, if this was all random, once in a while they’d make a mistake in our favor. The record shows they have never made a mistake in our favor.
