Survey: Two-Thirds Of Elites Say There’s Too Much Freedom In America

thefederalist.com ^ | 1/19/2024 | EVITA DUFFY-ALFONSO

[bitt]

The nation’s ruling class holds deeply authoritarian opinions widely divorced from the rest of the American electorate, finds a survey out this week. It found nearly 60 percent of American “elites” think there is too much individual freedom in America. Meanwhile, nearly 60 percent of registered voters have the exact opposite opinion, reporting the United States has too much top-down control, limiting liberty.

The study, titled “Them Vs. U.S,” defined the American “elite” as “having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, and living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile.” Such people account for about 1 percent of Americans. The study also examined a sub-sample of the 1 percent who graduated from Ivy League schools or other name-brand institutions such as Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

The study from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity found ruling class opinions on climate policies were particularly harsh and despotic. More than two-thirds of the 1 percent support rationing vital energy and food sources in an attempt to control the globe’s weather. That number jumped to nearly 90 percent among the Ivy Leaguers. Around two-thirds of normal registered voters, however, oppose rationing vital resources.

Limiting food and water consumption is a serious proposition to global leaders. For example, the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, an environmentalist organization of city leaders across the globe, has proposed annihilating meat and dairy consumption by 2030.

[TigersEye]

Three thirds of elites have too much access to O2.

[lightman]

The Constitution gives us NO FREEDOMS OR RIGHTS. None.

It says so.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ...

Uh....that is the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.

[bankwalker]

rights and powers? I thought it only gave enumerated powers, but no rights. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

[No name given]

So do I.

[No name given]

Better yet, exile them to Pluto!

[TigersEye]

[cowboyusa]

The Rights in the Bill of Rights are GOD given.

[CatOwner]

They can openly state this because the peons won’t rise up until it is far too late. That point has become a small blip in the rear view mirror.

[South Dakota]

Everyone that has a million dollars or more has to drive a pinto

[Terry L Smith]

the elites have always decided that the great unwashedcan neverdo anything for their own selves.

the elites always think “ there oughta be a law” for anything that displeases them.

” the problem with Scotlsnd is there are too many Scots!”

IMHO, there are too many elites sticking their probing proboscis’s into yhe lives of many aood American citizens!

[snork55]

Agreed!

[Noumenon]

Seems to me that we have too many elites in America. KTF KTA

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[right way right]

Eat the rich.

[faithhopecharity]

solution:
lock up these “elites”

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[GOPJ]

Our white trash 'elties' want to be treated with the respect once given to respectable citizens.

Are they insane?

Sorry but the drug addicted whoremonger sons of trash like President Sniffer and half of DC are NOT people we look up to... It takes more than money and expensive clothing to be respectable.

(If that wasn't the case every 'successful' pimp, drug dealer or cartel member would have high social standing.)

[Deplorable American1776]

100% of DeplorableAmerican1776’s family thinks there are too many America hating ELITES!!

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Worry Not Patriots—the big war will end the whole thing with the rich few. They will understand that they are not “citizens of the world” but hated Americans—like the rest of us. Many bad things are coming, suffering beyond measure. A new world is coming—soon and it will be brought on my the upper class themselves,

[Jim W N]

Although the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution, never motions him (thank God for the wisdom of the Framers), the Constitution is God-given, expressed by the framework of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, which is not law but can be used as mandatory authority about the intent to the Constitution.