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(Photo by   Vladimir Fedotov   on   Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . Notice how the movie makers regularly come up with scary systems, or A.I. that will someday, somehow control human society?   HAL   from   2001: A Space Odyssey   did it.   The Matrix,   and   Skynet   from   Terminator   also took over humanity.   Why are we allowing such a thing to happen, even if it is only in movies?   It is because the   They   figure we are mostly chumps, and consider the great bulk of Americans a democratic   mob . . Not sci-fi or screen writers necessarily, but the way our political system always ends up getting more convoluted, and self damaging. The   They   is a nebulous entity   We The People   originally formed, and now have little real control over. While politicians and the wealthy have much of the power, even their control is limited. The   They   slowly tie up...

This is a shortened version (with minor editing) of a similar chapter in my book, Our Democracy Requires An Update . T he private and social property paradox contributes to our schizophrenic approach to solving societal problems in the United States. Social property includes all the elements of life you have ultimate control over, or should have , as well as those provided by the government or society that do not have a direct relationship to private financial elements. Public schools, roads, freedom of speech, and bodily autonomy are examples of social property. Health insurance is what I call a crossover property in the United States, since economic elites will not allow the consensus on its social property status to be instituted. Our extremely unequal balance of both property types over time, and up until now in various ways, as to who has it and how much they have, helps explain our paradoxical situation. Race, and gender are the defining and divining factors in our detrimental d...