Quote Originally Posted by Dolphus Raymond View Post
Oh, I understand how and why it became political. When Populism rears it?s ugly head, situations like this become inevitable. Fifty years from now, this dynamic will be the topic of several dissertations.
See ?The Dipping Vat War?.
It wasn't populists that decided to trash what little remained of our norms and institutions with credibility. It was the gentry class that did that did enough damage to them to give populists an opening, and the gentry class that then decided to take a flamethrower to them after populists got a little bit of control.