Ennui versus democracy–Part III: Our elitist “founding fathers”…

[This concludes the discussion of Chris Hayes’ Twilight of the Elites and the movie Elysium.]

When you stop to think about it (or ignore all the laudatory crap in our history textbooks), the famous “founding fathers” were all aristocratic and wealthy men, our first meritocracy, if you will. Most of them were narcissistic old men tired of a distant monarchy interfering with their business interests. They wanted control, so they took it away from England. Hayes barely hints at this because those...