Let’s be clear about one thing, would you hit it?
It’s the elitists and the professional gimmedat class that depends on them versus we taxpayers.
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Spot on.
Ostensibly, not ostentatiously.
Excellent essay Laz.
25 years ago I heard it as the Cosmopolitan culture against the Bedrock culture.
Downside for the elitist a is that the people eventually have enough...and if they don’t get their way at the ballot box, they get their way at the cartridge box
This is the result of that bothered-feeling and some analysis.
Thurston Howell III would agree. So would “Lovey”.
Big Media Elitist run the country thru their surrogate the Democrat Party.
It’s strange how the people who want to eliminate the “surplus population” never consider themselves to be a part of it.
Excellent. I think you have hit the nail on he head.
Another way of putting it; Washington vs The Rest Of Us.
Well Done.
Interestingly enough, Trump the Multi-Billionaire, is not an elitist.
Why?
The Billionaire Populist?
Say what?
I suspect that his populism is the direct result of, like Reagan, being Honest.
I think you are exactly right. There are no Democrats/Republicans any longer. It’s one big swamp of shared corruption.
The Washington uppercrust won’t have to deal with the ramifications of their action/inaction. They’ll be shielded from it all.
Excellent!
The other thing is -- it's hard to get things done in politics. Major changes only come around once in a generation. A minority party can't get anything done in any case. But in practice you need over 60 seats in the Senate to pass significant laws. That happens very rarely. I doubt Boehner and McConnell would exercise much leadership even if they had those 60 votes, but without them, there's not that much that they can do to change things.
Absolutely on target! GREAT job!
The ruling coalition is united around several things that the people are against. They are skilled at setting up phony issues (or issues that don’t concern the Federal government) to break up the formation of any possible other coalition.
Republicans and Democrats agree that the purpose of the State is redistribution. How much, and to whom, and under what circumstances, there are disagreements. But no elected officials of either Party believe that it is wrong to take from you and give to another of their own choosing, for reasons that make sense to them.
Republicans and Democrats agree that you have “rights” - lots of them. They also agree that any question ABOUT your “rights”, or whether or not something IS a “right”, should not be decided by a political process because that is “divisive”. So, they both agree that the voice of “the People” as contemplated in Articles IX and X can only be voiced by nine unelected life tenure judges, and that five of them, at any time or for any reason, can give new “rights” and take away old ones, particularly if those old ones arise out of majority voting.
Republicans and Democrats all believe in “diversity”. They, ignoring completely the results of all social science research on this subject, and contrary to millennia of human experience and wisdom, believe that the more “diverse” our country, its institutions, and any private entities within her become, the more cohesive and productive we will become.
Republicans and Democrats almost all believe in “free trade” and “immigration”. These things are good for various constituencies of both parties while they wreck the economy and the nation.
Many of the People, perhaps a majority, do not believe in any of these things. But in our existing system, captive as it is to the MSM-mandated “process” for choosing two candidates for POTUS neither of whom will change a thing, leaves the People with no voice.
Something’s gonna blow.