Posted on 10/13/2022 1:37:37 PM PDT by gitmo
Last week, a shocking moment of truth broke through the huge effort elites normally put into hiding their disdain for the rest of us. At an event sponsored by the libertarian Cato Institute, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Adam Posen—a man who appears to be paid $450,000 a year—made clear his absolute contempt for the working class.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
You can bet not one of these contemptuous elites has the slightest clue how to unplug a toilet.
I must be an elitist. I didn’t know they were electric. ;^)
He looks like my old roommate Andy.
Can you summarize?
“Reminder that in almost any emergency situation, but especially natural disasters, one redneck friend is worth 1000 PhDs.”
Basically, he’s contemptuous that he can’t play God with the lives of those that he thinks he’s above.
He wants the ability to shift lives around on a global level like chess pieces. International libertarianism is simply a means to keep people from complaining about what is done to them because they are always replaceable with new people.
Hey, those Japanese bidet seats are electric, and are great! They also require a water connection. And the two I have, I installed myself. AND I have a MS degree.
Great article, Charles! Well done.
Sure. Newsweek requires us to post excerpts only.
Posen said no one cared when the recessions hurt black people.
Manufacturing is designed to keep low-educated whites outside the cities to concentrate their political power, and that manufacturing increases the political power of the working stiffs. (That’s a bad thing).
Therefore, we should not as a nation help manufacturing to recover from the recession.
The author doesn’t agree with Posen.
Excerpted:
"The fact that manufacturing jobs in the country have been declining should be at the front of everyone's minds. The fact that major corporations have exported a large amount of their manufacturing to China and displaced Americans from those jobs is something that is having a profound effect on many of my fellow blue collar workers who I have spoken to. Many towns that had manufacturing jobs outsourced to China or Mexico are now a shadow of their former selves, and many of those towns struggle with record levels of drugs and poverty among those who have been left behind.
It turns out that when the jobs leave and people lose their livelihoods, they tend to lose their sense of meaning. Despair sets in and down the rabbit hole of addiction many people go. Men without a college degree are leading the nation in deaths of despair, but elites like Posen only see "powerful positions"!
The Eloi, mouthing off again....
Anybody who gets dirty on the job and sweats is of the elite’s contempt.
What a fat, greasy slob!
He'd last a day or two lost in the woods.
Weird article.
This is a quote “They are terrified of the political power of people like me”
Wrong!
I’m terrified of “They are terrified of the political power of people like me”, because they are Democrats.
The subject of Derision is himself a Democrat.
Certainly not a Republican or Libertarian.
Elites almost always are Democrats and they don’t like their working class Democrats, because they are troublesome.
They want free everything and that is bad.
“You can bet not one of these contemptuous elites has the slightest clue how to unplug a toilet.”
You are wrong; they do this easily by calling the help.
Strict libertarians are for open borders and offshoring manufacturing too, but they are a mere fly in a sea of progressive ointment.
Another “women and minorities hardest hit” zombie.
Just hate the elites right back, that’s what works for me.
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