Rush did a great job on this today, it was well worth the listen.
thanks forposting this. I heard Rush and then went to the article4.
this is extremely important.
Once people see the ruling class as they are, then we are at the tipping point.
To see them not as merely misguided idiots, people who are out of touch BUT somewhat well-meaning, people with wierd ideas and a lack of logic, but exactly what they are -— a ruling class -— then the revolt against them will reach all sectors of the populace.
to see clearly is so important. They are a ruling class with a raw greed for power and wealth, with all their collaborators, their minions, and those who mentally and economically give them their power.
We give them power by aping their speech,their clothes, their pursuits, by longing to vacation in the same spots, by aquiescing to their idea of art and culture.
I am so glad to see this well-written and thoughtful article.
...never mind the ruling clsss theory...the country will break apart along racial lines...tribal wars of secession and partition are occuring around the globe...in time they’ll come here too.
bttt
I just had a thought. Has the NRA become part of the ruling class with their support of Harry Reid?
The author asks: “Suppose that the Country Party (whatever its name might be) were to capture Congress, the presidency, and most statehouses. What then would it do?”
Sounds too simple, but the Country Party needs only do one thing - Kill the Federal Reserve. Kill it and you kill the ability of Gov’t to deficit spend, you kill the welfare state, you kill over-extended foreign entanglements, you protect and enhance property rights.
And put the job totally out of reach of my budget.
This in addition to ridiculous levels of ssorted other taxation. It makes the founders look like crybabies by comparison.
How else to deal with it? There's no one to vote for who'll change things.
The problem now is that everyone’s pissed off more or less, left and right. The thing is, they’re all pissed off about different things. Even on the ends of the spectrums different people are pissed about different things.
There’s no ‘unity’ politically or geographically whatsoever to really cause any change, much less a revolution of any sort.
Correct. An excellent article, and well worth slogging through all of it to the end.
this is a great present-day explication of what Ayn Rand described in Atlas Shrugged as The Aristocracy of Pull. She had these people dead to rights 50 years ago.
This article lays out the Neo-feudalism that has been brewing since the American Revolution, since Karl Marx decided he wasnt going to let the unwashed masses take away his right to a nobility. How dare the people decide for themselves! The people MUST be returned to their rightful place as peasants whilst the Elect regain their manors!
BM
See “The Vision of the Anointed” by Thomas Sowell.
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That's from a speech in Atlas Shrugs. Perhaps we should call them Proto-tyrants rather than the ruling class?
First posted here on FR on 7/8.
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