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The elite ruling class must be removed.
I have news for you: that will never, in our lifetimes, happen. The best that can be hoped for is that one set of individuals comprising the current "elite ruling class" be exchanged for a different set of individuals comprising a "new elite ruling class," and all that'll get you is a different group of people about whom to ***** and moan. The only way to avoid that happening to that is to effect Marx's ideal of communism, and seeing as neither the Soviets nor Chinese have managed to do so, the Soviets discarded the notion, I think we both that pipe dream will no time soon come to fruition.
It went pretty well in 1776.
How well it went depends on whom one was at the time. It's also well worth noting that the contenders in that dispute have largely ended up in exactly the same general situation as societies. Thus, history shows us that whichever way things had gone in the Revolution/Insurrection, we'd likely find ourselves facing much the same circumstances as those which today confound us.
(I don't want to make too much of that. I'm well aware of the thought differences in the early 19th century that catalyzed American leaders to expand to the Pacific as contrasted with that of the English who almost certainly would not have felt impelled to on occasion usurp and on others expand legitimately as far west as American presidents saw fit to do. There'd surely have been no Monroe Doctrine, no Manifest Destiny, no "Alamo," etc. had the English won the war. It's quite likely North America would have become a patchwork much as Europe and Africa is.)
The Founders knew they were creating a dynamic system and nation, and as anyone can see, where that led is here where we are today. And what are people doing? Complaining now with much the same dissatisfaction as did our forefathers about the governing elite of their day. What different? Well, back then it was one elite segment of society griping about the deeds and rationale of another elite segment of society. Today, it seems mostly a matter of the "won't do" complaining about and opposing the "done well."
We've before seen the "won't do" revolt against the "done well." One example of it was the Bolshevik Revolution. What resulted from that endeavor? An absolute monarch was replaced with a dictator. What's the difference between a dictator and an absolute monarch? Spelling and pedigree. Another example comes to us from France. What resulted from that? Napoleon.
The problem isn't republican (small "R") oppositional governance model we have. The root problem, as the Founders noted (
Federalist Paper 10) is factions, more specifically, (1) the polity's willingness to treat the political process as though it were cricket and (2) placing candidates' party over their probity. Sadly, they didn't then have a good solution for overcoming the downsides of factions. Like them, I don't think it's possible to engineer one for the need for the first amendment's protections outweigh whatever ills parties inject into the political process. (I suppose strict constructionists might argue against that notion, but such appeals would land bereft of more than mere embers of support; thus proponent's doing so would be purely an academic exercise.)
