[E. Pluribus Unum]

The big-government/big-corporate criminal complex is the ruling class.

[gorush]

We just finished watching Downton Abbey through season three on DVD. If you like historically based period pieces you’ll like this one.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Ping

[Da Coyote]

It is called jealousy.

Our ruling class knows well that they would be fired from a burger flipping job for incompetency.

Hence, their hate of all who actually produce value.

I respect my garbage man immensely.

I loathe, disdain and f*rt in the general direction of the vast majority of our congress critters.

[SeminoleCounty]

Had that cute redhead Lavinia was with a lower class me and not the limp (in many ways) Crawley boy....she might have survived the Spanish flu

Class warfare and Downton Abbey in one swoop

[familyop]

America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print

The Fragmenting of the New Class Elites, or, Downward Mobility
http://volokh.com/2011/10/31/the-fragmenting-of-the-new-class-elites-or-downward-mobility/

Environmentalism and the Leisure Class
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2835601/posts

The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2843575/posts

Are you a member of the political class?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/are_you_a_member_of_the_politi.html

[DannyTN]

Here's an example of what happens when you leave international trade policy to individuals who act only in their own shortrun best interest ignoring the long run. The prisoner's delimma applied to international trade

[1010RD]

This is a psychological issue. Ego and high IQ, in differing proportions, make an individual believe they're superior to other. Nothing makes an elite angrier than some ‘dunce’ making it big.

They believe in a ‘natural’ order of things and are willing to use the power of the state to undo any naturally occurring successes.