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Originally Posted by CaleVinson  Oh, nice approach. 
Would you be happy with the following attempt at further minimisation, building on yours:
"There is only one class of citizen." ?
From which it follows that everyone has access to the same rights. |
Well, that's what we tried to do here. That's basically what the late twentieth century project of progressive change was about.
But what it led to in practice was different political and social factions fighting over who gets to really say they are an American. The formal definition is very simple, but not everyone's heart is in that.
So we have a situation now in which, from the hard right's point of view, some people are more American than others. I think this kind of problem needs to be very openly and assertively addressed when it appears.
Only if you had a society relatively free of authoritarianism and caste, could you assume that people would even know what you mean when you say there is only one class of citizen - and it includes everyone.