[Torie]

The elites have been more cosmopolitian since rocks cooled. Beyond that, the list strikes me as unduly pessimistic, and paranoid, with the paint brush so broad, that it reminds me of that celebrated modernist painter (the name of which escapes me in a senior moment) who painted broad lines of color, and the congnescenti called it art.

[TSchmereL]

There is a difference between being cosmopolitan and unpatriotic.

Benjamin Franklin, for example, was cosmopolitan but hardly unpatriotic.

Not so with todays elites. They are wholly unpatriotic, godless, and in open revolt against traditional American values.

[Mears]

" corporate media demand certain types of politicians."

He may have something here.

Would Grover Cleveland ot Harry Truman make it today?

I always feel that the RINO Mitt Romney may run on his telegenic good looks. He is my absentee governor---too busy for the state business.

[CatoRenasci]

Lasch was an interesting character, I've read some of his earlier stuff and it's worth the slog. Haven't read this one though. I've a friend who was did a PhD with him in the '70s.

[razorback-bert]

This one

Mark Rothko

[WashingtonSource]

Mondrian?

[Pharmboy]

This guy perhaps?

Painting by Louis Morris