Thanos Thanos:
Your point is also true but I was speaking more to the regional inequality in this country that's led to the development of a system of first-class and second-class citizenship based on nothing more than what part of the country one resides in.
There are more divisions than just East/West. There are also North/South, Canadian/First Nations, Urban/Rural.
But the divisions are not out of malice, they just grew because they followed the population movement. First Nations and rural residents have it hard, because there are so few of them. The East decides for the West, simply because they have the numbers.
Even the Greeks knew that Democracy would always be a tyranny of the Poor over the Rich, because the Rich were outnumbered. Once we allowed political contributions, and no inheritance tax, we ensured the Rich would become a ruling class able to buy the laws they want. That leaves everyone else as the second and least important class.
Thanos Thanos:
Odd, isn't it, that those who built and defend this system are far closer to socialism than capitalism in ideology have somehow managed to create something as radically unfair and unjust as the unhinged renegade anarcho-capitalism practiced in the United States is.
That why anyone pushing unchecked capitalism on me I view as suspicious.