Don't call me "Tory".

A comment I left at Grandpa John's:

I assure you that I've never said anything to support a hereditary aristocracy... nor a hereditary oligarchy nor even a hereditary meritocracy. "Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations" (meaning that: one person goes from rags to riches, his/her heir maintains a high economic positions and his/her grandchild blows it all and ends up back in rags) is my vision of how life should work. If you don't strive for greatness yourself, you don't deserve societal, let alone government, support.