There is a similar but distinct con game behind the ability of academic poltroons such as Professor Gates to pretend that their backs bear scars from the slavers. Kerry was never a working man but Gates is black; both are scam artists milking a living out of membership in the respective classes. Both are wealthy, pampered, arrogant, and elitist. Neither is actually particularly elite, at least in terms of actual ability.
In short, the ruling class is uneasy because its members know perfectly well that by their own putative standards they are unworthy. Here at least the aristocracy of old Europe is superior, its unassailable standard being birth and not ability. That society started going to hell when malodorous merchants began to encroach upon the privileges accorded by possession of the Habsburg lip; ours began that slide when citizens first began to mistake loud, self-aggrandizing snake-oil salesmen for leaders when in fact the Republic is based not on leadership, but representation. The sort of leader typified by an 0bama or a Kerry is that of a bellwether goat who leads the sheep peacefully to slaughter secure in the knowledge that he himself will avoid the blade. One follows that sort of elitist at one's peril.
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