Greenfield: The Elites are Revolting

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[afsnco]

I know I’ve always found them revolting...

[Red Badger]

Yeah, they stink on ice!..............

[WKUHilltopper]

Not only are they revolting, but repulsive too.

[Reily]

They certainly are!

[Still Thinking]

I’ll say!

[floozy22]

Brilliant piece.

[jimmygrace]

French revolution, Bolshevik revolution, etc., etc., etc., It never works out for the elites.

[Louis Foxwell]

It works out for them for a while, but then their sanctimony sets in and they realize they are superior creatures with a deeper morality and a bigger brain. At that point their hubris gets them shut down by the very peons for whom they show such contempt.

[freedumb2003]

>>French revolution, Bolshevik revolution, etc., etc., etc., It never works out for the elites.<<

First ones up against the wall.

[loveliberty2]

They are, indeed, revolting!!

They are either constitutional illiterates, or they are traitors to the American Republic.

[txhurl]

I remember when it was ‘aftershave’ until everybody quit shaving.

[loveliberty2]

So-called "progressives," wherever they are found, portray themselves as the "intellectual" elite, although they are totally bereft of real knowledge or understanding of the great ideas which were the seedbed of Ameria's successful 200-year experiment in liberty.

Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:

"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)

Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.

Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.

If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.

Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.

In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a striking resemblance to the players who, though rejected by freedom-loving citizens, simply refuse to leave the stage, as if reality is outside their universe of thought.

For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:

"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."

Yes, the pseudointellectuals who just left the White House, are entrenched in the so-called "mainstream" media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."

By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.

America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.

It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).

Blasting it "all to smithereens" seemed to be the goal of the Far Left, which recently had control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government.

Such politicians rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous claims. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:

"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."

[Ouderkirk]

The Elites are Revolting....Yes, yes they are.

[txhurl]

If you make tangible goods or have a mortgage, you are more likely to want borders and a nation. If on the other hand you deal largely in intangibles, in information, in strings of numbers, in data on global servers and financial transactions around the world, in movies and music, in ideas, then borders are an unreal abstraction. If you get your rides from Uber, your house from Airbnb, your entertainment from Netflix and your dates from Tinder, if you don’t actually own anything, and have no plans for a family or anything more permanent than a virtual existence, who needs a nation?

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I specifically remember DARPA warning about this when they decided to release the internet in the lat 70s, when the planet was overnight given touch-tone telephony. They also knew critical infrastructure - banks, electricity, aviation, defense - would glom onto the internet and put all the chips on the table for some evil entity to knock over.

[Magnum44]

Excellent post. Well stated. Thank you for taking the time to compose it.

[KingNo155]

The Elites are Revolting in the sense the make me want to wretch

[Clutch Martin]

Just plucked from a “Bad and Nasty” elitist protest article...concerning Presidents Day protests. I’m guessing it’s some sort of manifesto (I think)...

“We are calling for radical inclusive, disruptive, provocative, ridiculous, enraged and engaged work — whatever is right for your community...It could be a poetry slam, a dance recital, a 3 act play, an opera, a naked performance, a quilting bee, a Care Café or three people standing on a corner; whatever helps spread the message.”

SMH LMAO...

[euram]

I’ve always found the elites to be revolting.