It also explains why the GOP-e would rather lose to a liberal Democrat than win with a conservative Republican.
They believe the electorate should submit to their "betters".
That’s why I think Ivy League colleges are the most useless secondary education institutions in the country. Look at those who go there, get elected, and seek about destroying this country. They went to Ivy League colleges.
All one has to do is look at the State Dept. There they will see, scores of Ivy League graduates, walking the halls of every embassy and consulate in the world. Don’t forget about the Little Ivy’s as well.
And there, you will see people with $200,000+ educations, taking civil servant jobs. Why? So, they can travel the world and hob nob with fellow socialists, communists and progressives, all on the American Taxpayer dime.
They are some of the dumbest people you’d ever meet. But they got their paper from Yale, so that makes ‘em smarter than the rest of us.
Rumor has it that the easiest way to pass a class at Harvard, is to sit next to a player on the Harvard men’s hockey team. Hockey players, generally, ain’t the brightest bulbs on the tree and apparently, they get a little help. Or so I’ve heard.
I try to avoid sending click traffic eo the NY Times web site, so I have not read the complete article.
Does Douthat rip into Michelle Obama for the way that she milked the system to get a diploma and a high-paying job befitting the wife of a Democrat Senator despite being as smart as a box of hammers?
The problem is that the local elites in” flyover country” want their kids to go to Ivy league schools, or to have their own local colleges filled with Ivy league clones.
Yes, it does explain that a bit more clearly. And why, of course, Sarah Palin was never a consideration for THEM. Regardless ...
Douthat observes that white liberals scandalized by the letter just don't want to admit that they see colleges as social-register-breeding-farms for their children—and that, by the way, they do their best to keep out the smarter Orientals.
There are four main avenues into the ivy’s:
1) Alumni status.
2) Being in racially desirable group.
3) Athletic desirability.
4) Academic, board scores, and extracurricular achievements.
The last item does not so much facilitate entry as it does prevent the possibility of entry for substandard candidates. Naturally, the standards are significantly different for the candidates who are members of one or more of the first three categories.
Athletics has become a major means for the children of wealthy parents to gain entry to elite schools. This is particularly the case with Caucasian girls who otherwise have the greatest hurtles to gain entry (other perhaps Asian candidates). This is because both groups are overrepresented on campuses. White girls can use Title IX to their advantage, however.
Prep schools now place as much emphasis on sports as they do on academics. The results is a boom of such relatively obscure sports such as field hockey and lacrosse. Such sports are today’s way to game the system for wealthy white kids of both sexes.
While many elite universities still place academic demands upon their students (e.g. MIT, Vanderbilt, Purdue, Amherst), many such as Brown and Harvard notoriously inflate grades.
Princeton Mom to All Female Students: ‘Find a Husband’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3005005/posts
Princeton, the Fourth Reich!
How is affirmative action and protected class culture a meritocracy? They wrote that with a straight face?
The author desperately needs the services of a head shrinker. Vanity leads to seething envy which leads to evil, hate, destruction, murder, war, and voting Democrat.