All three are not ideal - but I think having escape hatches is important. I also think private/public is overrated. Having it as a signal is ok. Forbidding access to privates is too strong.

You need electoral reform post haste - but I do not seed even a start to that discussion, so I think you are hosed. Might not be Dictator Trump, but maybe Vance or some other guy who succeeds in this game.

And all who cry "if the democrats win everything will be ok again!!!!" - not it won't. The democrats are too slow to recognize the problem and even if they eventually do, there are no majorities to change the system. And finally: Democracy needs at least two parties - democrats cannot be expected to keep branches of the government forever. You need a sane and democratic second party. Republicans ain't it - but the current system gives them success, so why change?!

Inheritance really shines when you want to encapsulate behaviour behind a common interface and also provide a standard implementation. I.e: I once wrote a RN app which talked to ~10 vacuum robots. All of these robots behaved mostly the same, but each was different in a unique way. E.g. 9 robots returned to station when the command "STOP" was send, one would just stop in place. Or some robots would rotate 90 degrees when a "LEFT" command was send, others only 30 degrees. We wrote a base class which exposed all needed commands and each robot had an inherited class which overwrote the parts which needed adjustment (e.g. sending left three times so it's also 90 degrees or send "MOVE TO STATION" instead of "STOP").