Maybe the Indians had it right with the caste system?
That’s as profoundly Un-American of a remark as I can imagine. I hope you made it without thinking.
No, the caste system puts in concrete what the Left is doing, where people and their descendants are forever treated according to what group they belong to, rather than their actual individual talents.
300 years ago the European Kingdoms at war with one another followed first the French Diplomacy and Banking constructs along with a form of Queensbury rules to ensure ruling elites were not killed when conquered. At the same time in the West, Christianity quelled the blood lust to kill every living person in a siege city or encampment. When the West started taking prisoners or allowing the former opposition to manifest it created the cancer that Mao tse Sung so eloquently identified as “No Man, No Problem”. Had we not evolved due to both a survival instinct and religious social structure, we would have killed everyone as the Hunter-gatherers and the Genghis Khan did before our current time. Of course Mao also made sure anyone he allowed to live would bear the brunt of the Korean Was such as sending in the former Nationalist forces to Korea, or other front lines with Russia.
Elizabeth Warren will be unhappy to learn that she is a lower-caste Cherokee.
The question is - why did the Indian caste system evolve? And it wasn't only in India either. And it has existed for thousands of years. Its a provocative question because facts and history will often conflict with ideology.