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Greenfield: The Elites are Revolting
The Sultan Knish blog ^ | Friday, February 17, 2017 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/20/2017 1:55:42 PM PST by Louis Foxwell

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To: Louis Foxwell

Add me to the list. Greenfield is a great writer. Brilliant.


21 posted on 02/20/2017 2:48:08 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather (We are not sick of winning yet!)
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To: Louis Foxwell
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?

That describes much of DC, in which 90% of those liberal non-thinking zombies voted against Trump.

22 posted on 02/20/2017 2:49:34 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Louis Foxwell

“You’re telling me—they stink on ice!”

(Mel Books in History of the World)


23 posted on 02/20/2017 2:53:57 PM PST by mikeus_maximus (The liberal Left promotes hate and violence.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Good article, thanks for posting it.

The Leftists, and their Media allies, do not believe in Nations. The spirit behind them drives for a return to Babel and the One World Government.
We will get there eventually, as the man of sin must be revealed before our Lord Jesus Christ's return, but we'll oppose the self-anointed Nimrods until the real King returns.

24 posted on 02/20/2017 3:01:47 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Still Thinking

They stink on ICE!


25 posted on 02/20/2017 3:06:23 PM PST by SargeK
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To: Louis Foxwell

Please add me to the list.


26 posted on 02/20/2017 3:29:04 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

It is true that the elites are revolting. They are also ugly, and they dress strangely.


27 posted on 02/20/2017 3:51:22 PM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Outstanding article, and thanks for posting. I think Greenfield has offered us a particularly sharp insight when he identifies the proponents of post-nationalism with megacities and Internet wealth. Small wonder these prefer no borders: for them borders offer no protection, only an impediment. Their wealth offers the protection.

That isn't much of a comfort to those of us who have to do real work and stick to a real budget. The post-nationalist world is one configured to offer the most comfortable living to the fewest people, they just happen to be the ones owning the microphones. And they're very happy with their membership in that "fewest" category.

The problem is that post-nationalism has been tried and it simply doesn't work. People don't think like that and can't be re-educated, i.e. brainwashed, to think like that. Stalin, for example, found that a heavy dose of political indoctrination and the pervasive presence of the commissariat among his troops couldn't make them fight in 1941; removing the commissars and making an appeal to Mother Russia could, and did. There is something ingrained in human psychology working here, something quite a bit more than a malleable social construct. Nor does the Nation map accurately to the State. Hegel was correct about that but wildly incorrect about its significance. Put simply, there is no place for an individual within the State, there is within the Nation.

Building the entire world into one mega-State under the benevolent rule of someone who has managed to sell soap on the Internet is a project doomed to futility, and only someone with a fund of ignorance as large as his ego could imagine otherwise. These are not intellectuals, they're would-be aristocrats and irresponsible ego monsters. They just got bopped on the nose by their inferiors and they don't appear to like it very much.

28 posted on 02/20/2017 3:59:25 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: jimmygrace
Trump was predicted by a hermit in the 80s
29 posted on 02/20/2017 5:02:33 PM PST by arthurus
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To: WKUHilltopper

But not Deplorable!


30 posted on 02/21/2017 4:35:41 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Billthedrill
Great line, Bill:

These are not intellectuals, they're would-be aristocrats and irresponsible ego monsters. They just got bopped on the nose by their inferiors and they don't appear to like it very much.

31 posted on 02/21/2017 5:42:38 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (The Left has the temperament of a squealing pig.)
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The "resistance" is a collection of elites, from actors at award shows to fashion magazines to tech billionaires, decrying a popular revolt against their rule.

They are not the resistance. They are dictators in exile.

They had their chance to impose their vision on the people. And they lost.-- Daniel Greenfield

32 posted on 02/21/2017 9:20:59 AM PST by GOPJ (What is called "Fake News" is actually deliberate and coordinated disinformation --Freeper detective)
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To: Louis Foxwell
The "resistance" is a collection of elites, from actors at award shows to fashion magazines to tech billionaires, decrying a popular revolt against their rule.

They are not the resistance. They are dictators in exile.

They had their chance to impose their vision on the people. And they lost.-- Daniel Greenfield

33 posted on 02/21/2017 9:21:29 AM PST by GOPJ (What is called "Fake News" is actually deliberate and coordinated disinformation --Freeper detective)
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