Further...

 I think what I wanted to say in that cross-country post below regarding a Running Roll improving performance is that it only works when the team is cognizant of where the rest of the runners really are at, and stick with them long enough to encourage them to improve and speed up, but without simply bounding off leaving them behind...

Think of hot-button issues today.

What's happening in this country, imho, is that those who have changed morals and have the wealth to purchase their way out of the realities that shackle others -- even if the chains are self-imposed -- are sprinting ahead and shunning those who refuse to "keep up."

I wish those advanced in the pack would be more realistic about the rest of the team.  We're splitting a few away -- the jackpot winners -- while the rest of the country simply cannot keep up.  Incremental improvement really is best for everyone.

You can't expect, with your wealth, everyone else to be able to afford or accept the same choices you lavish upon yourself and your own.   What good is it to win your race, but lose the rest as a team because so many others are struggling at the back of the pack?

What price your glory?  And did you even earn it, or did you build off of a capital injection when your parent died early in life, say?  Some of us are more catholic -- we want the others to be alongside  us when we win... We don't want to abandon them.  We want to survive, and that means staying with the boat, even overturned.  The storm will pass, we can survive.

There's room for more people on the life rafts too.  Don't row away too soon from the American boat;  stick around, get to know others, and work to better this country together? There's still time, and we have a lot of strong smart ones coming up who can still right this ship, I think.

Don't sell out America for your cheap baubles.  Your kids won't appreciate the gifts either, if you steal from them their freedoms to associate with all others and cheat them from challenges in life.