The imposition of a singular belief system on a multicultural society such as the U.S. is dangerously antithetical to the American tenet of liberalism. It erases the beauty of our country’s varying customs, traditions, religious beliefs and ideological positions, and ignores our unending effort to create compromise and accommodations along those lines.

While both parties can be held responsible for the ineffectiveness of social reform, Democrats have long played a special and enabling role in the problem.

Meritocracy ultimately becomes a cop-out for powerful people attempting to avoid the work of addressing inequalities ingrained in society.