The Impeachment struggle.

Elite failure ails us, not just Trump's abuses.

That's the important lesson from two weeks of impeachment hearings.

We have learned that not just Trump is suffering from uncontrolled chaotic thinking, but of something much worse: that the American people are in decline due to systemic elite failure.

We are not alone. The same plague has overtaken the English. Just consider Brexit.

The elite that has failed and continues to fail is the management class raised up by the industrialized society. It is most easily defined by its system of recruitment (higher education); by its social function (providing regulatory technical expertise); and by its culture and mind-set of privilege and entitlement.