When I was young, one of the things drummed into me about the superiority of America vis-a-vis the USSR was that we had a responsive government, and that everyone was subject to the same laws. In contrast, in the USSR the apparatchiks and the nomenklatura got special treatment in all things, including living arrangements and medical care. Special stores, special hospitals—all for the governing class.
Are we here so different now?
...”When I was young, one of the things drummed into me about the superiority of America vis-a-vis the USSR was that we had a responsive government, and that everyone was subject to the same laws. In contrast, in the USSR the apparatchiks and the nomenklatura got special treatment in all things, including living arrangements and medical care. Special stores, special hospitals—all for the governing class.
Are we here so different now?”...
We are no different. Thanks for pointing this out. I, too, remember.