America is a divided society

Excellent story by Neil Macdonald about how strongly divided America is along class lines.

Here's an excerpt.....

"The bitter truth, more obvious by the year, is that law enforcement in the U.S. is actually the enforcement of the class system itself.

If you are poor, you understand that. If you are wealthy, you probably understand it, too, but in another way altogether.

For a member of the American underclass, a minor brush with authorities can turn into the kind of Kafkaesque despair that most Americans associate with places like Egypt or Russia or Iran."

Read the whole story on CBC