Micah 3:1-3
I said, “Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong, but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh from their bones. Yes, you eat my people’s flesh, strip off their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot."
That's what I was thinking as I read down the verse.
The Israel that God designed for the people had no land ownership so no landlords. That is the basis of freedom right there because as soona s you start a rent system you will have an elite class and things like feudalism.
Not having to pay rent is the most basic and fundamental of human rights. I'm not saying that the govt should give out houses, just agreeing with God that being born into a system where you immediately have to pay someone else simply because you exist is insane and a violation of the rights that being placed here by God should bring with it.
In that Israel there was no king, and no centralized power structure.
It was when the people of Israel demanded that they be giving a king, and the rejected the Israel that God designed that things went bad.
God called it a wicked thing that they asked for, and said that to choose that was to reject God.
But that is what created this elitist class over there all ruling classes and govt are things God says he hates, even the US. You can't have a ruling class without it going terribly bad