They've had a good run, keeping their own safely at the helm of things, letting the worker bees think the American Dream is actually available for them - if they work hard enough. Lack of education and/or poor health prevents most of them from advancing in both status, knowledge and influence.

That's right, but information has a way of creeping in around the edges. Now people are starting to wake up and really see things as they are, or some of them. Some still cling to the dream.