Originally Posted By: The Ratt
1. There is a significant class of people who are well off and either worked hard, or didn't work hard, to get where they are, who want it to stay that way. Possibly not considering what the government provides for them, or what other people are going through. This is nothing new and doesn't bug me this much.
2. There is a large undercurrent of racism/anti-gay/antisemitic in the population of America which is currently being ignored by popular culture. This is a large problem assuming that you support everyone in America having equal opportunity.
Really, neither one of these issues is new, or restricted to America, although the exact form they take depends on the time and place at which they appear. There has always been SOME kind of aristocracy, resources have never been equally distributed, and when people feel stressed they have always looked for somebody else, some other group, that they can blame.