Multigenerational Winning

To the Establishment, the criteria for winning included the stipulation that it necessarily be multigenerational. The guardians of the modern democratic state cannot be interrupted by the normal process of replacing their key members. Only family lines are capability of this kind of stability over the long term. By necessity the ruling class within a modern industrial society must need be centered on bloodlines.

New family lines can be admitted into the guardianship class. This is precisely what happened in the Nineteenth Century when key American families leveraged middle class fortunes into what became ultimately a parity of stature vis-a-vis their Old World counterparts.

This was not an easy process for the Americans. The American elite families who gained this stature did so only with great effort over a long term. This kind of resistance to admittance from below is necessary for the guardian class to preserve itself against dilution of its competence and its role.

Like all families, the American ones had to break down the door by brute force---with a weapon, until they had to be reckoned with as equals.