We’re going to have to do something about that name, first, lest he be branded a secret Zoroastrian/Confucian/Shintoist.
Hey, the name is an anagram for Jihad Samurai! That’ll work way bett…wait.:smack:
Well, the POTUS does not define the ruling class; some of our presidents have been of lower origins, but the ruling class still rules.
Any definition of “ruling class” that doesn’t include the President of the United States as one of its members is inherently flawed.
This is “hard-core left”? I take it you’ve never read Socialist Worker.
Oh, he’s a member, all right – at least, when he takes office, and for the rest of his life afterwards. But a social class is a lot more than an institutional elite. The American white overclass furnishes most – not all, but most – members of the American institutional elite, including the highest public offices elected and appointed, corporate CEOs, foundation chairs, top-flight academic posts, etc. But the overclass is much larger than the elite; and it can recruit some members of lower-class origins without changing its essential character – as the British gentry did in the 19th Century, when it intermarried with the rising class of merchants and industrialists, and had their sons educated and acculturated in the gentry’s public schools.