Posted on 08/05/2023 10:25:33 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
New York Times NeverTrumper columnist David Brooks published a rare, self-reflective column this week asserting that he and our America’s political, corporate, and media elite may in fact actually be the “Bad Guys.”
Brooks’s column is served up with his usual overbearing degree of pseudo-moralistic handwringing, lamenting the overlooked virtues of the American elite and the dangers of Donald Trump. But buried in its verbosity is a recognition that the U.S. elite have enriched themselves at the expense of Americans middle and working classes:
Armed with all kinds of economic, cultural and political power, we support policies that help ourselves. Free trade makes the products we buy cheaper, and our jobs are unlikely to be moved to China. Open immigration makes our service staff cheaper, but new, less-educated immigrants aren’t likely to put downward pressure on our wages.
The column goes on to point out that the elites’ social libertinism has resulted in the breakdown of the American family with an increased rate of divorce and out-of-wedlock births among the non-elite classes. It should be noted that in 2013, David Brooks divorced his wife of twenty-seven years, Jane ‘Sarah’ Hughes. In 2017 David Brooks married his research assistant Anne Snyder. She was 32 at the time, Brooks was 55.
The reaction to Brooks’s column has varied on social media. The neoliberal Tax Foundation’s Alan Cole, a self-described neoliberal, perhaps unintentionally re-enforced the thrust of the columns complaint in a thread on X (formerly Twitter): “Mentioning Trump support invites a comparison that makes it easy to diminish the examples raised. Lots of readers will say “sure, some of these things are bad, but Trump is far worse.”
Glenn Greenwald noted that Brooks is correct that the elite media focus on cultural and ethnic newsroom diversity has come at the expense of economic diversity in the newsroom, making our media blind to the experience of the American working class. And perhaps as expected, famed American writer and unhinged social media liberal Joyce Carol Oates posted: “[T]hat David Brooks column in which a handwringing pretend-liberal blames liberal “elites” like himself for the racism, misogyny, anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-education bigotry of T***p followers like a mugging victim blaming himself for being mugged.”
Globalists are crazy if they think the can control the world , it will be never ending WAR
I recommend Gutfeld’s take on this, especially when it comes to Daygan.
so they still just don’t get it, these denizens of the Looniverse. so no pre-election right turns for us to worry about. all the better.
Yes. Yes they are the bad guys.
They aren’t the elite
They are puppets of the oligarchs
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David Brooks probably thinks that Jeb! Bush and Chris Christie are Conservatives, too
The one thing...the VERY one thing EVERY Roman General knew NOT to do ...was to come back from war without the loot. The emperor would have them pay for that mistake with their life.
An elite- an “elected elite” -has taken the country on the equivalent of a joy ride in a stolen car for decades, but since 911 has run the wheels off it. They have spent trillions overseas at war with nothing to show for it at home other than the J6 prisoners who though they could have their say in the matter.
Don’t you love how the multi-millionaires are always talking for the paycheck to paycheck guys.
The elite are so far removed from the average joe here in America. It really is a danger...
I just read a thread on choice of words. Now we get to the globalist word.
There are 2 distinct types of globalists... plus many not so distinct mistures.
1. We should all move in the direction of free markets... in the direction of free market of ideas...free market of goods and services. Government should not interfere in the free market... except to rein in thieves, murderers.
2. We should move in the direction of a one world government that knows better what is good for us than we do for ourselves. The whiz kids, the brain trust will use AI and superior thinking. The rest of us should accept it and work to support it. Those who don’t support movement in the correct direction should be canceled.
We make a grave error when we confuse the two.
Ford was a pretty ruthless man. Despite the endless myth that he wanted to pay his workers enough to afford a Ford automobile,. He paid what he had to to keep people that work in a miserable loud hot factory.
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