Posted on 01/27/2024 5:58:01 PM PST by MtnClimber
According to a new poll, nearly 90 percent of ivy league grads support the “strict” rationing of gas, meat and electricity to fight climate change.
That's 90%! “Strict rationing!”
The poll, conducted by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, is titled “Them vs. U.S.: The two Americas and how the nation’s elite is out of touch with average Americans.”
It was intended to assess the beliefs of “elites.”
According to the College Fix, the poll was comprised of two surveys of 1,000 folks each conducted in late 2023, and the "Elites" were defined as “people having at least one post-graduate degree, earning at least $150,000 annually, and living in high-population density areas.”
The Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CUP) found that:
“An astonishing 77% of the Elites – including almost 90% of the Elites who graduated from the top universities – favor rationing of energy, gas, and meat to combat climate change.”
This is starkly at odds with the will of all Americans, 63% of whom oppose this policy. It is shameful and embarrassing that so many “elite” Americans have drunk the Kool-Aid -- and bent the knee at the altar of progressivism. These are folks that would be more at home attending the World Economic Forum in Davos than a country music concert in Des Moines. And would then fly back to the U.S. to snob the rest of us and bitch about the carbon footprints of lawnmowers and farmers.
Incredibly, CUP also found that nearly six in 10 “elites” say there is too much individual freedom in America.
Are these so-called elites talking about the freedom to attend preposterously expensive indoctrination centers-- mostly courtesy of dad, mom, and taxpayers-- so that, upon graduation, they can spew anti-American inanities into the ether?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
That’s understandable....not at all unexpected.But do they support rationing for *everyone*?
I’d love to build these clowns a debris hut in “the woods.”
Here you go no electricity.
With their inability to hunt & trap game, all the animals should be safe.
Also, no gas stoves or lanterns will be available for their little survival session.
Will be be allowed to eat cake?
Well, the way I see it is, those “elites” who support this madness can go bleep 🤬 themselves.
Well said.
I think people who think they’re elitist should be _______ until there’s none left.
Choose your own words.
“Socialism for thee but not for me”.
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I'd bet it would taste like old goat.
This is no surprise. They’ve made no secret of it.
They want it for everyone but them so the hoi-polloi don’t ruin their little world playground.
No sense in ruining your vacations or neighborhood with the it being contaminated by encountering the unwashed.
What a fabulous experiment it would be if the elites ,defined as having an income of $150,000. Yearly and a post graduate degree, could illustrate by example rationing energy, gas, and meat.
They could practice this for 5 years. Everything they do would have to be documented, no cheating allowed. We would be able to see how well they did, at the end of the 5th year.
We can finally come to an agreement. I too favor restricting the elites’ gas, meat, electricity and freedom.
Thank God Ivy League grads are NOT A MAJORITY!!!
OH, AND CONSIDERING THEIR REPUTATION...THEY WILL STAY A MINORITY FOR LONG TIME TO COME.
Outlaw private jets and boats over 30 feet. Its time for us to start taking away their stuff and see how they like it.
“The two Americas and how the nation’s elite is out of touch with average Americans.”
The wealthy are too disconnected from the common man to be involved in their governance.
Some will grow out of it others won't.
Please let me know if these elite begin to sacrifice anything at all, that I doubt. They all talk a good game but seldom will they follow through.
Mostly likey these are super rich elite kids who have never done without their entire life, probably feel like it would never reach them
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