By John Zmirak, The Stream - Our country, like many in Europe, is in the throes of a low-level running civil war between elites and the people. As I’ve explained here before, the “managerial” class James Burnham identified as the real winners of World War II is intent on seizing total control over politics, the economy, and culture from the old leaders of Western society — individual business owners, voting citizens, churches, and other civic groups. Managers don’t produce things or invent things the way Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other old-fashioned businessmen have. Managers control things, and people, by using bureaucratic levers and legal boobytraps. If they can’t win elections, they cancel them (see Romania), arrest their opponents (see France), or steal them (see the U.S. in 2020).