Great write Roger !!!
Here are my 2 Cents . With my own past ReCon Marine to Wealth all by myself .
My Teacher was Common sense , reason and PhD in as a ReCon Marine .Life was easy after those years as was the Animalism , take no Prisoners top of the furniture Industry .

Since the very Foundation of America was Founded on paying the price for Success though hard work , real caring , A positive attitude , Dealing with difficulty , Job skills and education in your chosen fields that supports your own Self and Family .
Individually , Ethically, Financially and morally and Yes I know a bad word now a days and laughed at by Hollywood and the Media elite . Real ‘success’ is no more of a accident than is a sure guarantee staying Drunk or on Drugs and driving will end in killing your self or worse others .
A higher education feeds you Ideals and Theories and is wonderful but a great Job skill feeds your family and pays your house payments and rising taxes and cost of living yearly . Given the Present needs I pick eating and paying my house payments over the theory of why Marxism is better than Capitalism . Debated in American Colleges since his death 81 years ago even though 160 Million were murdered and starved to death with those same theories . Somehow today Marxist theories makes sense and are Progressive and doable ?
‘Success’ wears the simple old well used Hat of I tried and tried and will never stop trying . Continued Failure wears the same old Hat of You do it for me because you told me rich others should do it for me while I lived the same unhappy self year after year .
I listened to you so I continued to be angry and of course continue to fail because of Rich successful white men ?
Neither you or I ever wondered why somehow since I kept voting for you to change me and others just like me .
You never did nor did I believing in your idealism that never gave me realism other than my continued Failure .
That was real just as much today as my needs were the first day I ever met you many years ago telling me you could help me If I just voted for you .I did for many years as did my neighbors and you didn’t .