Posted on 08/02/2016 12:38:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Niall Ferguson says the Republican presidential nominee has emerged as a champion of the disgruntled lower classes, who – though poorer and less educated than the nation’s elite – are legion
In his brilliant and prophetic 2011 book, Coming Apart, my friend Charles Murray identified the stark social division that is defining this year’s US presidential election. Murray’s book was unabashedly about “the state of white America”. The white population of the US, he argued, is more polarised than at any time in the past half century. On the one hand, there is a “cognitive elite”, who are educated at universities like Harvard and Yale, marry each other, work together and live in the same exclusive neighbourhoods. These people are politically more liberal than the national average, as well as much richer.
On the other side of this social chasm is a new lower class: white Americans with nothing more than a high school diploma, if that. In a masterstroke of exposition, Murray vividly localised his argument by imagining two emblematic communities: Belmont, where everyone has at least one university degree, and Fishtown, where no one has any....
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Well this sounds good except that everyone I know who is voting Trump has one or more college degrees.
On the down side of Charlie Murray’s theory, since elites spurn their secretaries these days and marry the lawyer down the hall, they end up with a woman who looks like Hillary and a daughter who looks like Chelsea. The uglification of America!
IOW, Obama made Trump possible.
Sooo, I’m sensing that good ol’ Niall is a Belmont guy and I, and others here are denizens of Fishtown. Do I have that right?
What a crock of Obama.
Now there is some crap! The ones that went to Harvard and Yale have created the mess we are in. Going to an elite university often means you paid excessively high tuition to get indoctrinated with PC crap and still came out ignorant of reality.
Don’t goof up their “Trump has the hillbillies” meme.
Funny. Just yesterday watched Charles Murray discussing this book on Uncommon Knowledge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q3zy4NRzz4
It’s all us ignernt white trash hillbillies who support Trump, you see.
All one has to do to see where the intelligence is, is to view the voters in the heavily democratic districts. Its where all the geniuses vote according to the democrats who seem to say they have a monopoly on intelligence.
Yeh I hate to rain on that parade. :-)
I think I would rather spend a Saturday Night
in Fishtown, than a month of Sundays in Belmont.
It’s true, I’m not collegiate but I have learned
a lot in 70 years...
Why news from China Newspaper?
Well, are they elite college degrees? If they went to Fishtown University and came out knowing there is a right and a wrong and that there is no free lunch, well what good is that? They need to go to an elite college to really be able to exercise leadership, AS THEY ARE ENTITLED TO DO!
Everyone should read Coming Apart and Murray’s other works, but I would point out that Trump leads among college educated white men by double digits in some polls, so the idea that he only appeals to Fishtown is wrong. Moreover, I believe that a more disciplined candidate, i.e., someone who doesn’t shoot himself in the d!ck at every opportunity, would recapture the support of most college educated white women using Trump’s brand of white populism.
“It’s all us ignernt white trash hillbillies who support Trump, you see.”
Liberal elite a-holes:”Well, you didn’t go to COLUMBIA, like me, so you’re just not smart enough to understand the issues. I care about you, so let me explain them to you!
F them!!
Going to an elite university often means you paid excessively high tuition to get indoctrinated with PC crap and still came out ignorant of reality. .......................... It really means you are being taught by some leftist professor who is there to influence you to vote as a liberal. They may be teaching advance mathematics but you can get the same education in a non Ivy league school, since they use the same text books without the subliminal political indoctrination. (Hopefully)
I post articles from India, Germany, Britain, the Philippines, Venezuela, Canada and many others. News is news. You’ll notice that the author is the furthest thing from Chinese.
Yahoo article. Funny how they do not have any articles on the corrupt democrats that have resulted in millions of deaths worldwide from their crazy policies over the years.
‘Is Donald Trump plain crazy?’ Big-name writers now questioning GOP nominee’s sanity
https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-sanity-mental-health-000000384.html
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