Dr. Jack Goldstone

So what happened to this tragedy in Minnesota?

that happened today.

I mean, I hope your listeners have heard about this horrible shooting at a church.

On the one hand, it's kind of like, hey, liberals have been saying for years, if we don't get guns off the streets, if we don't put tight controls on how many guns people can get their hands on, we're going to see these tragedies over and over.

And this gunman apparently had a rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun.

He fired them all.

This sort of thing shouldn't happen.

But I'm afraid we're going to get a reaction that says, man, we need martial law in our cities in order to protect us from this kind of thing.

And if we get martial law, will elections ever occur again?

Historically, once a country declares martial law, elections are one of the first things to get postponed or changed.

So we'll see how this goes.

But it's something to be concerned about.

About the elites, I mentioned that society is complicated, has a lot of moving parts.

I have a book coming out next year.

It's called 10 Billion, How Population is Changing the World, because I look at

People, who composes different parts of government and society and how has that changed?

In America, we really have two distinct elites.

We have what I call the plutocratic elite.

These are the billionaires, people who have made fortunes on Wall Street or in business.

Then we have the credentialed elite, people who got into positions of influence or power