It used to be the people who ran things were those who owned the land. And they owned land because their fathers had owned it and they inherited it. After a while, the landowning gentry elevated themselves into an aristocracy, protected by inheritance and marriage, a class that kept all others out and only allowed the King to come from one of their own.

After centuries of bloody warfare, the landed aristocracy was eventually displaced by a merchant class, based on commerce and industry, and after wresting power from the landowners they established a similar caste, one that kept the others out by the same barriers of inheritance and marriage, and now with education.

Today, the lackeys of that class feel they are on the ascendant, they are the managers and administrators, and the true inheritors of the business aristocracy. They are only a step above the industrial serfs and retail worker bees and data-entry peasantry, and actually little more than the overseers and craftsmen and head servants on the plantation. But they are convinced that they are "businessmen", entrepreneurs, and the only real men of vision and enterprise. Actually, they are just temporary fucking employees like everybody else, but they see themselves as tycoons in training, and that if it wasn't just for the poor, and the "Socialists", and the gummint bureaucrats, they too would be able to turn their innate business skills into the genteel positions of creative power they feel they are entitled to by their DNA.

Remember Johnny Reb? The sharecropper and tenant farmer who joined the Confederacy in order to fight for his God-given constitutionally guaranteed freedom to own his own slaves? Yep. Same mentality and psychology as today's Deplorables. They've convinced themselves that if they join their masters in a fight against the bureaucrats and govvies and artsy-fartsies and hippies and queers and lawyers and Kollege Perfessers and Hollywood Celebrities, those same masters will lavishly reward them with the slots alongside them in the entrepreneurial Nirvana they feel they are genetically entitled to be a part of. You and I know that's not going to happen. Those guys are at the top because they are bright enough to know there's not enough room up there for everybody. They promise whatever they have to if they need help, or votes, but they will never deliver, not to chumps like you.

You're right. The ones that whine the loudest about the virtues of free enterprise are only the ones who have been most abused by it, and conned to support it. They do not have the courage to recognize the magnitude of the lies and crimes that have been perpetrated against them, instead, like all sycophants everywhere, they only wish the opportunity to work alongside their own oppressors. They just want the freedom to own their own slaves.

Well, with Trump and the rest of the Conservative medicine show, they'll get exactly what they deserve.