A good, if long, read.
It's not just the elected elite and the Deep State though; it's the electorate that continues to grant them power and blindly follow them.
Posted on 10/31/2019 12:13:46 PM PDT by Rummyfan
The other day, I was listening to Heather MacDonald speaking about homelessness during an appearance on City Journal’s Ten Blocks podcast. She was describing a visit to San Francisco, and it all sounded so familiar.
Before I get to Heather’s riff on the homeless, I want to do a little riff of my own about the homeless and others in America’s underclass. As long-time readers know, I actually have a conduit to the homeless and the underclass. A very dear childhood friend of mine has made life choices that see her living amongst them. When I visit her, I meet her friends, all of whom have, or have had, some extreme form of drug addiction. They also count among their number the homeless, although I haven’t met those guys personally; I’ve just heard about them.
When Obamacare was an issue back in 2009/2010, I learned something very interesting from my friend. Because she came from a middle class background, she was delighted to know that she could finally have subsidized middle class insurance. Her friends, however, were less delighted. Why? Because contrary to the assumptions in Washington, D.C., these people don’t have middle class values that include constant health maintenance and monitoring and they don’t care about having a personal relationship with a physician and a hospital.
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A good, if long, read.
It's not just the elected elite and the Deep State though; it's the electorate that continues to grant them power and blindly follow them.
In all cases, though, they represent the same thing: People fighting back against political and cultural leaders who have become an international class bound by ties, not to their own countries, but to other world leaders. The transnational elites posture for their fellow transnationals and enacts [sic] policies that enrich only themselves. The one thing they’re not doing is taking care of the people in their charge.
On the contrary, this class has contempt for the people in their charge and has arrogated to itself the obligation of molding them to their own enlightened tastes. Historically that offers a very happy present and a notably ugly future.
You owe me a keyboard.
It’s two. OMG...
Not a bad article. Better than many.
Just like the old days of feudalism, the European nobility may have fought among themselves, but they were united in the idea that they should rule over the common people.
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