so it’s a lot of religious conservatives. we don’t mesh.

I had the impulse to reply to

meanwhile Im progressive, have a good job, own property,

with a mocking

that’s your problem!

and it turns out that it is your problem. /s

Edit:

Turns out you are conservative:

and I’m not going to parent anyones kids.

How else would you do it? As long as everybody can join the party and rise in ranks I would say that it can’t be more open.

but in reality it’s just owned by the political elite.

Do they extract the same fraction of resources for their own pleasure? Did Stalin or others have car collections, horse stables or private islands?