Some of these Belmont people are among the least aware, less able to survive an upheaval, and politically the most stupid in America.
Money and skills don’t guarantee that you will have a brain that is realistic in its appraisals of reality, society, and threats.
I live among a few of them and they are almost useless. Their kids are educated in “schoolin” but not in life. Why? Because they are so sheltered that they have not been how to be streetwise and self-sufficient.
Give me a bunch of good ole boys when it comes to crunch time. THe US military realized that in WW2 when it took tough city-kids and let them lead the attacks against the Germans in the occupied cites, while letting the country-boys lead the fighting in the jungles and hills from Italy and France to the Pacific.
My father-in-law is one of those country boys - he survived four Pacific landings - Saipan, Tinian, Peiliu?, and Iwo.
Peleliu. One of the war's grand screwups, of the "Is this operation really necessary?" variety. Another one was Wewak, in New Guinea.