Abstract
Abstract This essay attempts to examine some of the nation's most pressing political, economic, and social issues by focusing on their illusionary depiction, underlying reality, types of inequality they reflect, and consequent policy implications, contrasted with the current national mentality. Major political issues reflect the country's power elite control, exploitation, and manipulation of policy, maximizing minority domination and inequality. Economic issues, furthermore, largely serve elite interests and maximize majority power at the cost of minority deprivation, while broad social issues highlight the manner in which power elite interests ensure the maintenance of minority exploitation and related types of institutionalized inequality. These general trends highlight the American illusion of open democracy contrasted with its elitist reality. Their implications for developing the New Welfare State are discussed by way of conclusion.
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