Steve Sailer writes what quite a few commenters say is one of his best posts ever, about how our oppressors freed themselves a few decades ago.

So, the top level of our society continues to argue for the breaking down of old restrictions, whether on the idea that marriage is between a man and a woman or that their should be limits on debt and interest rates. After all, individualistic self-determination works fine for the upper middle class.

From this perspective, the 1960s cultural revolution look like an Elites Liberation movement, in which Unitarians, Congregationalists, Jews, Episcopalians, Christian Scientists, and similar products of centuries of bourgeois culture decided that they, personally, could get by without the old rules, which, indeed, many of them could. Moreover, they were tired of being expected to be role models of starchy behavior for the proles.

But the tenor of the times demanded that this Elites Lib movement be cloaked in egalitarian and civil rights rhetoric and policies (such as refocusing AFDC from Roosevelt's aim of supporting widows to supporting single mothers, because we wouldn't want to discriminate against blacks), with disastrous effects on people toward the bottom of society, especially blacks.

In the old days the aristocracy believed they were better than the peasants and ruled them harshly. The peasants suffered much at their hands. These days our elites believe that we're really just like them, only with less money and education, and many of them genuinely seem to want to be nice to us. The end result... well, it's still about the same, isn't it?

I don't know what the solution might be, or even if there is one. That's fine, though. We've made it just fine through thousands of years of being ruled by power-hungry thieves and/or clueless incompetents. We can make it through thousands more, I'm sure.