Apply Socrates’ “Myth of the Metals” (from the Republic) to the current politics, culture, and society of the United States, as best you understand it. Is America a country of Gold, Silver, and Bronze (or Iron) people, as Socrates defines and describes those distinctions? How so — or how not? If so, is that a good thing? If not, should America accept the “wisdom” of this classification, and its consequences?