This so-called inequality of opportunity has been going on through out history. In fact it is only in America that there has been any sort of leveling of these disparities. So, far from chastising our country, we should be celebrating our liberies, not issuing edicts against our system.
Every child has the chance to get an education, and it is usually the decisions of their leaders, parents, politicians which impair the rise of most children.
The children and grandchildren of LBJ are the result of the thinking at the NYT.
I remember one school classmate of mine of with whom I went to 12 years of school. He came from a poor family of 10 kids. Half the kids, like my classmate, went on to be successful. The other half were not as successful with a few becoming criminals. All the kids where raised under the same circumstances. All the kids had the same opportunity to succeed or fail. What libs can't seem to understand is that some people will fail no matter what the circumstances. For libs, it can never be the individual, it must be the system that has to be changed.