A dying breed

Strange, but I miss the patricians.  This guy was no friend of liberalism, but he was at least willing to state this obvious fact (as quoted in The Week):

[There are] very few [middle class] people whose parents didn't, one way or another, get their kids into a good school of their choice.  But we deny that right to [inner city kids].  

He was right, and, after decades of bipartisan misrule - this is true in both Red and Blue states, after all - it really bothers me that he's still right.