“Inherited nobility”??? W.T.F. ??
Is that where you hope to take Free Republic?
Where you been ?
-The Bush Family is now on its fourth generation seeking high office and has held public office in the States of Connecticut, Florida and Texas
-the Kennedy family has held office in the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland,California and Connecticut
-Pelosi’s daugher is expected to “inherit” her Congressional seat
-Duncan Hunter did inherit his seat, until he went to jail.
-Debbie Dingell did take over her husband’s congressional seat.
-as of 2017 there were supposedly 20 Members of Congress whose parents were also in Congress.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/20-current-members-of-congress-had-parents-in-congress
In addition to political office, the children of the politically prominent cash in, and monetize their family connections. Pelosi’s son, Romney’s sons, Kerry’s sons were all operating in Ukraine.
And that is just the politicians. If you look at the members of the “Cathedral” Institutions (major newspapers, Ivy League, big Foundations) increasingly you see that they are the second or third generation.
The US has the worst possible outcome. Dynastic and untalented elites given the fraudulent validation of pretended democratic victory or individual merit.
For the USA, instead of an elite trained from birth to rule, there is now a decadent inherited oligarchy groomed from the start to cash in.
Prominent artistocratic families like the Howards and the Russells served England for many centuries.
The best the USA can do now is Hunter Biden and Andrea Pelosi.
None of that constitutes "inherited nobility" and the whole idea is absurd and obscene.
Many people inherit money and/or popularity, but nobody has or inherits "nobility".
It's the nature of life that everybody starts the race from a different point and runs it at their own speed and endurance, so nobody ends up at the exact same place of success.
And only obsessive preoccupations with socialistic values like "equality of outcomes" or "equity" or redistribution of wealth or "intersectionality of oppressions" or any of that other "woke" nonsense, would consider life's features to be failures we must, at great cost in liberty and human rights, correct.