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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The secret Trump vote is going to shock the world
Yep, agree.
in their trailers that is.
To better understand the wealthy but intellectually inadequate poseurs, referred to:
The reason the confused neurotics--many too disoriented to even understand that meaningful human progress is always a multi-generational adventure--continue to control much of the media & academia is the bullying of dissent, under the heading of what is "politically correct." This is why Donald Trump--who has thus far thrashed the bullies--is so important to the American future, and the restoration of a loyal and functional leadership.
Lots of folks with college degrees that have been downwardly mobile over the last couple of decades.
As if a college degree in basketmaking implies a higher level of intelligence than an plumber with only a high school diploma...
I’ve known plenty of millionaires who never graduated from college.
It was actually a pretty effective scam run over the past decade plus, this notion that the Left could capture words and make them un-sayable, capture thoughts and make them unthinkable, capture the public discourse and make it strictly one-way, condescending, hectoring, and at last alienating. The upshot is a level of pushback that is no longer susceptible to being dismissed as racism, sexism, bigotry, etc, etc. It isn't going to be dismissed at all. Activists have pushed the social envelope into a minefield and they're pretending outrage when it blows up in their faces.
Nor is this the sort of thing that is likely to be able to be turned on a dime by a cleverly crafted media campaign, although Lord knows they're trying. Half of the Left is saying we must be united and the other half is saying only if you're relegated to the back of the bus. It just isn't going to work that way.
Yep... keep calling the people, who keep this country moving, names. That’ll keep from voting... /sarc
They don’t want you to vote.
Yep... keep calling the people, who keep this country moving, names. That’ll keep from voting... /sarc
They don’t want you to vote.
I can attest to that. Trump won me over a year ago. And I’m a woman with a BS and MS in physics.
Though not much of a religious fella, I wholeheartedly and prayerfully agree with Mr.Fog's comment a few posts before yours:
The secret Trump vote is going to shock the world
You are kind, SaraJohnson
Frankly, I’ve known many “educated” who are really clueless.
Extremely well said, sir !
Same here. 28 years, that’s right YEARS, of education and several degrees.
His problem is that no one that lives in Belmont will admit to him the are not a Rat.
It was one of their heroes that said, “When you make non violent change impossible you make violent change inevitable.”
Frankly, I’ve known many “educated” who are really clueless.
“It’s true, I’m not collegiate but I have learned
a lot in 70 years...”
I did go to college, but I’d rather spend all of my Saturdays and Sundays in Fishtown ... I’ve always had contempt for condescending people that feel they know what’s best for me :-).
Yeh I have a masters, my best friend is a lawyer and my whole family are college grads. So much for only the blue collar vote. Not that I’m knocking that at all.
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