Posted on 01/21/2024 2:41:16 PM PST by rdb3
The people who run America, or at least think they do, live in a bubble of their own construction. They’ve isolated themselves from everyday America’s realities to such a degree their views about what is and what should be happening in this country differ widely from the average American’s. An analysis of their thinking, conducted for the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, finds that on a variety of economic, social, and political issues, there exists a wide gap between how the top 1% – the Elites – think things should be and how the rest of America looks at them. Elite thinking, as it’s termed, is under attack – and rightly so – for being out of step with the rest of the country. Below, we highlight some of the profound attitudinal differences between elites and average Americans:
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Pretty sad but not surprising. It’s good to see it in print. We know how much the left loves polls, lol.
The real question is how far they will go to maintain or increase their power over the U.S. citizenry. Odds are, given human nature, they will continue to erode our freedoms and rights and create a feudal system. They don’t appear to have much in the way of restraint, morals, ethics or integrity. Power is their desire. At any cost. Damn the Constitution and any remnants of decency.
They have forgotten their roots, obviously
What makes them elite?
They designated themselves that for some reason not apparent to anyone else.
Until ordinary people forcefully demand that elections again be transparent with votes counted in open in small precincts with witnesses, this is all just so much bitching and moaning.
It’s Plato vs. Aristotle.
Plato wanted the Republic to be run by the elites, who were always smarter than the schlubs, with the elites bolstered by an enforcement arm when necessary to keep the schlubs working in the cave while watching the shadows.
Aristotle wanted his political unit to consist of individuals and families, each working in the pursuit of eudemonia (”happiness”), a combination of sufficient health, wealth, beneficial relationships, and the knowledge of how to obtain them. These middle-classers would join themselves together in mutual support, what used to be called a “commonwealth,” and thereby strengthen each other’s lives while allowing for competition to bring out the best in everyone.
It isn’t too much of a leap to go from Plato to Hegel to Marx to Mao to the Democrat Party. And when we say we want to make America great again, what we really mean is that we want to make America Aristotle again—with our morals defined by Moses and Jesus, not by Mohammed and Satan.
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They think their wealth or status includes intellectual superiority.
Many of them had helicopter parents who told them, from Day 1, they were special. Then on to elite schools that the unwashed could not afford only amplified that.
Having once been fired from a job as young adult, I always say one should be knocked off their pedestal once in their life to learn humility and struggle.
it’s apparent to them that each one them is a
legend...in their own minds.
I liked American elites when they would wear monocles and ascots. The current crop lack that level of class.
It's mutual, from my desk.
Our elite will eventually get their just rewards. A swift kick to the face by those they revile.
What, are you on a dialup!? It’s only 3.7M.
It’s not the size; it’s the display. Not into zooming and then panning every few lines.
Also instructive.
I have believed for a long time that the American conflict, which some have called its “cold civil war”, is a social, tribal war, of peoples against peoples, of millions against millions.
This struggle is not about a grand conspiracy of a band of “globalists” or “deep state” operators. Of course there are conspiracies among these people, but there is no unified field theory of “masters of the universe”. Davos notwithstanding.
It is rather the natural outcome of the sort of people they are, who their families, friends and associates are. And the cultural beliefs and interests they share.
You are right. On that level, of ideology, it is Plato vs Aristotle. Good point.
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