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It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses
Foreign Policy ^ | James Traub

Posted on 06/29/2016 3:20:27 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol

The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry.

(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brexit; brexitwins; liberals; nevertrump; trump
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This is the essence of #NeverTrump. And they use a picture of Trump for the piece. The self-appointed "elites". Funny, few of the #NeverTrumpers have the education and wealth of the most prominent Trump supporters (Trump, Icahn, Wynn, et al.), but consider themselves the elite because they write condescending articles for NR, WS, FP, and have the imprimatur of other self-appointed elites.
1 posted on 06/29/2016 3:20:27 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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This is the NEW YORK TIMES protesting the voice
of voters for Soros, for Romney, and ... for themselves.


2 posted on 06/29/2016 3:24:44 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: AC Beach Patrol

Mao would approve.


3 posted on 06/29/2016 3:25:53 AM PDT by lavaroise (s)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

The author uses the language of the left - of socialist dogma to try to explain current events. The nationalist front and party breakups - globally - can’t be so easily summarized with old school Alinsky verbage. Easy to see where the writer’s head and heart lie.


4 posted on 06/29/2016 3:28:15 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Trust in God but Keep your Powder Dry)
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To: AC Beach Patrol

“The peasants are revolting!!!” (messenger)

“Yes. They certainly are.” (The King)

-Wizard of Id comic strip


5 posted on 06/29/2016 3:29:29 AM PDT by Makana (Common sense is not all that common.- Anonymous)
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"It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses"

Like the ignorant masses who write articles that it's time for the elites to rise up against the ignorant masses.

6 posted on 06/29/2016 3:30:03 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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This attitude would merely be hilarious were it not so dangerous.

Self-styled “elites” who imagine their every fart is the gas of wisdom.

This clown shows no potential for insight and knowledge, only a vapid certainty that he and his ilk are superior.


7 posted on 06/29/2016 3:30:36 AM PDT by Enchante (No lipstick on the PIAPS!! #NeverShrillary)
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Since the elites lack the votes and lack in numbers of those who are armed, I suppose that george will, bill bristol and the rest of the globalist filth will soon be calling for Blackwater mercs to shoot Americans down in the streets and bomb white, middle-class / working-class towns and neighborhoods from drones.


8 posted on 06/29/2016 3:33:40 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (If Trump loses, America dies)
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To: Diogenesis

I am never voting for Romney or Soros again. /s


9 posted on 06/29/2016 3:35:57 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: AC Beach Patrol

That’s quite a brazen headline. Provocative even.


10 posted on 06/29/2016 3:36:09 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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Sure to generate hits, and comments here.


11 posted on 06/29/2016 3:39:15 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses

What if the elites are the ignorant ones?

12 posted on 06/29/2016 3:42:07 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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Self-appointed elites like the non-Ivy-League-educated, non-billionaire, National Review nouveau intellectual #NeverTrumper, Kevin Williamson, haved expressed glee that the white working class are dying off at increasing rates and wished they’d all die. I guess he and the National Review and MSM #NeverTrumpers believe that America was built and defended by the types he encounters at Starbucks, yoga classes, and 10k runs for breast cancer.


13 posted on 06/29/2016 3:45:03 AM PDT by AC Beach Patrol
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“You are the few. We are the many. What happens when the many no longer fear the few?”

~ The High Sparrow (Game of Thrones)


14 posted on 06/29/2016 3:45:31 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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"If Donald Trump loses, and loses badly (forgive me my reckless optimism, but I believe he will)"

I couldn't get past this. These clowns have been singing the same song for a year and have been wrong, wrong, wrong. According to my daily FR the two presidential candidates are now neck and neck. One of them is under investigation by the FBI for exposing classified data to the world. She is sick physically and mentally. She is married to a (child) rapist and has been covering up for him for years. She has no accomplishments to speak of.

And Donald Trump won't beat her because...?

15 posted on 06/29/2016 3:45:56 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Gold and silver are real money, everything else is a derivative)
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the globalist filth will soon be calling for Blackwater mercs to shoot Americans down in the streets

They've already "imported" or "created" enough thugs to destabilize nearly anyplace they wish to destabilize. Guys like Obama and Paul Ryan aren't clueless idiots, they are well-paid tools of organized globalist entities. The author of this article is not much different from them- he's merely lower on the ladder.

Mr. niteowl77

16 posted on 06/29/2016 3:48:27 AM PDT by niteowl77
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The elites should have thought about this before advocating universal suffrage and "democracy."

I'll read the piece, but how, pray tell, does the author propose to give force to this uprising of the elites? The usual, propaganda? Or something more meaty?

17 posted on 06/29/2016 3:53:49 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Silly, because the MSM is on her side.


18 posted on 06/29/2016 3:59:00 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: lavaroise
Mao would approve.

The concept of subsidiarity is a “Foreign Policy” to our Alinsky minded betters.

19 posted on 06/29/2016 4:00:57 AM PDT by gasport (Live and Let Live)
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Mao would approve.

So would Levin.

20 posted on 06/29/2016 4:02:03 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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