Posted on 02/08/2022 4:13:53 AM PST by MtnClimber
There is no politics without an enemy. Therefore, the point of any politics is to rally under a warrior leader and then defeat the enemy.
One of my readers recently wrote that he objected to my use of the term “educated ruling class.” Said he:
Every Jill Biden with a Ph.D. in kiddie literature considers themselves ruling class. They are decidedly uneducated.
Of course, I use the term while understanding that it is mostly the ruling class’s self-image. Our liberal friends believe that their right to rule issues from their education. You doubt it? Here’s an Atlantic writer, David Graham, that just can’t understand politicians like Ron DeSantis that “belie their impressive degrees from Ivy League universities by aligning themselves with the populist conservative movement in some capacity.”
And then Vox Day links to a couple of pieces sneering at our ruling class. First he looks at the way that prestigious institutions recruit.
[Elite employers] only recruit at the most elite colleges, and they want recruits to be attractive, energetic, articulate, socially smooth, and have had elite personal connections, jobs, and extracurriculars.
Extracurriculars? Yes, but they must not be useful, merely “prestigious.” “Excess interest in ideas marks you as a ‘boring’ ‘tool’.” He ends with a quote from Dominic Cummings, the Brit that ran the winning Brexit referendum:
Politics is full of people who want to prove they’re the smartest person in the room but they almost never realise that the room they’re in rarely has any really smart people in it!
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Most politicians seem to be dunces to me.
thieves...
Taxpayer funded grifters.
Despots.
Wealthy psychopaths.
The Managerial State.
Disposable Davosie.
kakistocracy - we are ruled by people who are the worst we could find.
Yeah, but most dunces don’t become millionaires.
My guess is that is the primary reason they go into politics.
Since most are lawyers who find that ambulance chasing does not pay what they expected, they throw their hat (usually a brand-new cowboy hat) into the ring of the first office they think they have a shot at. Ergo, millions at their disposal. Millions they can syphon off a few bucks here and a few bucks there.
This article nails it.
Belittling, contemptuous, decrying, degrading, demeaning, denigrative, denigratory, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detractive, disdainful, disparaging, scornful, slighting, uncomplimentary
Aspersing, calumnious, defamatory, insulting, libelous (or libellous), maligning, slandering, slanderous, vilifying
Abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous catty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, unkind, virulent critical, denunciative, denunciatory acrimonious, bitter, envious, jaundiced, jealous, rancorous, resentful acrid, caustic, scathing, venomous
Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
We have a serious problem because we have a ruling class that looks like the ruling class in Europe in August of 1914 when the world was on the edge of Armageddon and they all thought we were going to have a nice little war to quiet everything down and get back to normal. They thought then and now that they were the elite and they were utterly totally completely incompetent.
There already is a word- Plutocrats.
Just sucking the blood out of America's private sector and offering really nothing in return.
Not symbiotes.
Parasites.
Control freaks
Scum works for me.
“Criminals”, covers all the bases
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