Pretty Americentric line of thought considering us dirty gaters have international "membership", but this also applies to the West in general.
Call it China or the Globalists -- 'and' is probably more appropriate, but there's been a deliberate decades long attack on our educational institutions, our government, our economy, the Christian religion, our borders, Communist infiltration of key positions in government and industry, etc. etc. etc.
And it's been so effective, I just don't see a reversal of course. Even if the moderate collective pulled the wool from their eyes and took action, we're still due for an economic implosion as the debt bubble eventually pops, and we'd have to deal with the indoctrinated masses who would violently resist being jacked out of the Matrix.
Personally, by this point I'm not even thinking about saving the republic, but rather what actions will need to be taken to build something better from its ruins.
I would say it was with Andrew Jackson's push to remove property requirements for voting.
I would prefer a woman business owner be allowed to vote and an indigent man not.
For married couples if one doesn't work the other should get two votes. If both work then each should get a vote.
I used to think I was sexist and racist but now I realize I'm just classist.
You do realize that the lower classes are a bulwark against wokeness and the hatred for your country?
If anything, the wealthier segments have far too much influence on politics, which is why we see so much focus on BLM, climate change and other stuff that affects no one's life.
I remember reading some two-bit sci-fi dime novel about a President who deliberately nukes the biggest cities in the country to deliberately get rid of the uber-liberal city folk, and force a more agrarian lifestyle to return. I seem to recall the end of it describing a farmer with his donkey cart in the aftermath. Can't remember what it was called, though.
Communist cambodia?
If that happened some globalist would buy a patch of land and sell tiny chunks to an army of wokelings to get around that.
We need to make sure everyone is fully aware of problems, not take away their ability to vote.
An interesting way of looking at it- I would say what you described is more like meritocracy than classism. But then when you look at the groups that most consistently reach the top in a meritocratic system, it tends to somewhat validate the racism/sexism viewpoint. But then there's the argument that it would be wrong to disenfranchise a legitimately gifted individual from a group that was on average poor performing. I guess that's a really long winded way of saying that I mostly agree.