Posted on 05/17/2016 5:11:43 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Meet the 30-somethings who are running our federal government.
“Cleverness is not wisdom.” — Euripides, Bacchae
What exactly has birthed the Pajama Boy aristocracy — our overclass of pretentious, inexperienced, and smug 30-something masters of the universe?
Prolonged adolescence? Affluence? The disappearance of physical chores and muscular labor? The collapse of traditional liberal education and the triumph of the therapeutic mindset? Disdain for or ignorance of life outside the Boston–New York–Washington corridor? Political correctness as a sort of careerist indemnity that allows one to live a sheltered and apartheid existence? The shift in collective values and status from production, agriculture, and manufacturing to government, law, finance, and media? The reinvention of the university as a social-awareness retreat rather than a place to learn?
During the showdown over Obamacare, the pro-Obama PAC Organizing for Action put out an ad now known as “Pajama Boy.” It showcased a young fellow in thick retro-rimmed glasses, wearing black-and-red plaid children’s-style pajamas, and sipping from a mug, with a sort of all-knowing expression on his face. The text urged: “Wear pajamas. Drink hot chocolate. Talk about getting health insurance. #GetTalking.”
Most men in Dayton or Huntsville do not lounge around in the morning in their pajamas, with or without built-in footpads, drinking hot chocolate and scanning health-insurance policies. That our elites either think they do, or think the few that matter do, explains why a nation $20 trillion in debt envisions the battle over transgender restrooms as if it were Pearl Harbor.
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VDH ping ...
What exactly has birthed the Pajama Boy aristocracy?
Everyone gets a trophy youth
Hipster culture
Blanket admission to college
Social media
Those fake news “comedy” shows
VDH is brilliant. This piece has to be one of his all time best...
-—What exactly has birthed the Pajama Boy aristocracy — our overclass of pretentious, inexperienced, and smug 30-something masters of the universe?-—
The feminization of America; the emasculation of the American male.
All things LGBTQ has relegated the USA to low-T status.
Bmk
-—explains why a nation $20 trillion in debt envisions the battle over transgender restrooms as if it were Pearl Harbor.-—
Actually it does not. All the current efforts by the regime to implement the leftist wet dream list are in fact political cover to detract from the biggest theft ring in the history of the world. The whole purpose of the current government is to drain as much money as possible from the public treasury to be distributed among the favored political class.
There are thousands of complicit criminals that should be brought to trial and then death or exile
From the article, they list out three of these idiots who substituted fakery for policy. Ethan Krupp, the original “pajama boy”, laughs about “winning” arguments with sarcasm and insults; Jonathan Gruber, who outright admitted to gulling the liberal voting public into supporting the Obamacare fiasco by making it look like something it wasn’t; and Ben Rhodes, who just revealed how he literally lied to the press in a way that would reinforce the delusion that the White House had scored a diplomatic coup over Iran.
Lamppost, rope, beltway insider, some assembly required.
My sons usually get guns or knives for most gifts. One is on summer break form college and working a construction job. Neither would be caught dead in plaid jammies.
I wish I could write like this.
What exactly has birthed the Pajama Boy aristocracy?
Elitism, defined by families who make their kids study and get good grades in order to dominate every aspect of ‘SCHOOL” at the expense of developing character and work ethic, which leads these Pajama Boys to expect that they will go to Ivy League schools and get jobs governing over people because they are “better” and “smarter” than the “great unwashed”. They are unprincipled and not well-rounded, greedy, and small-minded folks.
yes but they marry well and have beautiful albiet expensive mistresses
D’Souza meets Hanson.
VDH did not address the biggest lie and scam of all... Global Warming transformed (within the lie) to Climate Change. Just like ACA, another way for the political class (Al Gore and Carbon Credits) and their allies in academia (government funded studies) to spend our money to enrich themselves. The question is how do we stop them. Will Trump understand? Does he even care? Maybe the Tree of Liberty needs to be watered.
“We have no morals and we will attack you.” Ethan Krupp.
Ditto.
The failed, fake “self esteem” movement
The ensuing gynocracy where biomom has all the power in the “family” court grist mill.
The elimination of fathers parental authority and relegation of such to walking wallet (search: parental alienation)
The coddling of the resultant “emo” children; giving them the status of mom’s best friend and confidant
The substitution of pharma for discipline
The modern feminazi view that childish behavior that is normally subdued by parental authority is some sort of disorder/syndrome.
I think the prime reason is government subsidized post-secondary education. College has never been cheap, but unless you were extremely wealthy, it was an investment that needed to lead directly to a marketable skill. As “everyone” can now afford to go to college, even though many are not bright enough for traditional degrees, we see the rise of pseudo-scientific, “social sciences”, and other worthless degrees and the dumbing down of traditional degrees and curricula. The disaffected recipients of these degrees, long unemployable, are now the members of the Pajama Boy aristocracy, who finally have the power to have their “superior” views aired and executed.
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