Posted on 04/15/2013 4:48:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
America’s ruling class appears to believe that its mission is to subjugate and bring to heel those outside the club – which means you and me. This motley crew – who would never be caught dead jamming to something as déclassé as Mötley Crüe – has always held the rest of the country in contempt. But now that contempt is the basis of policy, and this simply cannot continue.
Big trucks. Country music. Any music not on vinyl. These are just some of the rest of America’s failings. The people who built the country, who fought for it, who unashamedly stand when the Flag is carried past …these people, are an embarrassment and their voices must be silenced so as not to interfere in the glorious works of the ruling class.
Understand that the ruling class is not simply composed of liberal Democrats, though the values (or lack of same) of these Socialist Lite movers and shakers predominate. The NYC-DC conservanerd contingent – the fussy David Frums and David Brooks – are equally horrified by the values, beliefs and preferences of Americans outside their area codes. We even see “conservative” politicians enlist too. You stay in Washington or New York or Los Angeles long enough and the pressure grows to allow yourself to be assimilated, to start looking down on other Americans.
These are the kinds of people who think they get a say in the size of my soft drink because they know what’s good for me. They’re somehow more concerned with my health than I am. They’re smarter than me. They’re smarter than you. They’re smarter than everyone who doesn’t think, feel and believe exactly like them. And, well, we’re just too dumb to live our lives without their benevolent dictates.
This notion sprouts in the insular communities of affluent, over-educated urban dwellers. It grows in the big name universities that tell their students they are the elite – and then releases them back into the world with a degree, yet somehow dumber than when they walked in. And it is encouraged by a media that confuses having access to an electronic podium with having mental and moral virtue.
The same people who brought us Solyndra think we should heed their demands for more power to combat non-existent global warning. The same people who brought us $16 trillion in debt think we should fork over more money to them. The same people who brought us 50 million Americans on food stamps think we should defer to their better judgment about how to run society.
These people have no right to lecture anyone on anything. They have an unbroken track record of failure.
Yet they do lecture, and worse, they legislate with the same smarmy condescension. Just about every issue today is best examined through the prism of pompous jerks trying to tell the rest of us how to live. At the center of all of them is the same vindictive drive to dominate regular Americans, to attack and mock our values, to break our spirit and will to resist.
Didn’t we have a revolution about this kind of nonsense a couple of hundred years ago? Thank God the patriots of the Revolution bitterly clung to their guns and their religion or we’d be as far down the sewer pipe as Britain.
They are less interested in effective policy than in effective persecution. These clowns know their gun-banning campaign won’t stop either the rare psycho shooting spree or the tragic, everyday nightmare of the inner cities’ gang-fueled bloodbath. But these policies aren’t intended for criminals; they are intended for us, to show us who is boss, to acclimate us to the concept that our fundamental rights are up for review, and that we better behave or they will be totally withdrawn.
It’s couched in a sort of Bizarro World morality where up is down, right is wrong. They tell us that if you want to keep your guns, you want children to die. This includes those of us who wore the uniform of this country or of a first responder agency and put our lives on the line to protect children while the ruling class posers sipped lattes, giggled at Jon Stewart’s mugging, and experimented with metrosexuality.
Why won’t the liberals talk about mental health, guarding schools or, heaven forbid, the carnage in the inner cities that their cronies have controlled for decades? Because resolving those issues won’t hurt us. Their goal isn’t to stop the violence – if they cared about violence you would be as able to walk down the streets of Detroit or Washington or any other big liberal city as you are the heavily guarded enclaves of the ruling class. Their goal is to beat us down, to break us, to leave us disarmed, docile and disheartened.
It’s more than just contempt. They hate us.
They hate our bourgeois values, like faith, family and patriotism. They hate how we don’t acknowledge their mental and moral superiority. Most of all, they hate our unwillingness to yield to their commands.
That’s why the policies we support are never merely unwise but are always portrayed as evidence of our unrepentant evil. Unhappy about illegal aliens flowing over the border? No, that couldn’t possibly be because of the social chaos illegals cause – not that the establishment would know anything about that. No, their only experience with illegal immigration is cheap labor cleaning their mansions and watching their kids. They aren’t ranchers in Arizona who get murdered by the guys bringing the liberals’ drugs north. They aren’t priced out of the manual labor market by folks who will work for under minimum wage under the table. They aren’t getting rear-ended by some illegal without car insurance.
No, it’s gotta be that we’re horrible racists. That’s the only possible answer.
The new liberal love affair with militant atheism is another manifestation of the same phenomenon. Just a few years ago, it would be considered unbelievably rude to disrespect someone’s religion in public – and it still is, at least to those of us who weren’t figuratively raised by wolves. But now trashing religion, particularly that of devout Christians and Jews, is a cottage industry. Of course, religions that respond to criticism with beheadings are mysteriously exempt.
You see this manifest in policies like the Obamacare mandates where the liberals seem to be going out of their way to ensure that believers are forced to pay homage to the great god Government and violate their consciences. What reasonable, rational motive exists to force people who do not share the liberals’ views of contraception to subsidize policies that they consider evil?
None, of course. Even Sandra Fluke could afford the few bucks a month to get her pills at her local Wal-Mart. Maybe that’s the rub – maybe the idea that a special snowflake like Ms. Fluke might be forced to mingle with the unclean masses is the real problem.
Now Washington state is suing some flower shop whose owner has religious objections to decorating a gay wedding. Apparently, Seattle is so bereft of orchid peddlers that it must force its citizens to violate their most sacred spiritual beliefs by privileging flower arrangements over faith.
Such floral fascism isn’t wise policy. It’s vindictiveness written into the law.
This is wrong and un-American. It’s also leading to divisions within the nation that we have not seen in generations. Liberals used to talk about “tolerance,” but as with “civil rights” their enthusiasm for it faded when their power grew. Tolerance means not messing with others who choose to live their lives differently. But now tolerance has given way to persecution.
The growing stridency of the liberal establishment keeps pushing and pushing, forcing regular Americans back. But eventually, they will force the rest of us back against the wall, and that’s when things will get ugly. They have a choice for our society – do we splinter or do we come together? If they want the latter, the first step is to stop being snobs.
A private school that is not an open and strong “Christian” school is equivalent to Harvard or Yale. Yo are just paying extra for the public school poison.
yeah we are looking at a Christian school, but it is not problem free either, although I think preferable.
What you should look for is the “drop out” rate,
and by that I mean,
how many kids raised in Christian households
and going to a particular type of school
leave the faith by the time they leave college.
IIRC, the King of France wasn’t lecturing anyody about their beliefs.
It was the revolutionary Directoire of Robespierre that changed the calendar, forced people to address each other as “citizen” and “citizeness”, and beheaded thousands either for their titles or for criticizing the Revolution.
Your analogy might apply to the rise of Napoleon, who executed large numbers of revolutionaries as likely troublemakers, and put France back on a more rational if imperial track.
The year 1860 comes to mind.
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The government needs to disarm the population before the real crisis begins. When America’s economy finally collapses, the cities are going to become ungovernable and the government is going to force people into the countryside as the only means of feeding them (Can you imagine what Chicago would be like with no jobs and no working infrastructure? The 1930s riots would look like a picnic). And the only way they can do that is to seize the land of those who already live in the rural areas. At the point of the gun if necessary.
Then that would be as successful as the "land reforms" in Zimbabwe. Chase out the people who actually know how to farm and put in a bunch of new farmers who don't know how to run the equipment or what to plant.
My brother, who lost a home contracting business because he was following the law, hiring American workers and paying them fair wages when his competitors were opening hiring illegals and paying them cash under the table made the same observation.
But he also observed that once they got accustomed to the American way, they, or at least their kids, quickly discovered that they could get the same bennies by sitting on their asses and drawing a government check. California is full of those types.
You've got that right!
People forget that Harvard was originally founded as a Divinity School to train preachers of Puritanism. The left is now more puritanical with their perverted values than the puritans ever were with their straight values.
We have a target rich enrivonment for the coming revolution, IMO.
I don't know for certain but I strongly suspect that out there somewhere are organizations (the dreaded "illegal militias") that are taking down names, addresses, and photos of the oppressors, for later use.
These ‘name takers’ will not be able to penetrate the perimeters of the bunkers already built and stock for the survival of the oligarchs. The government has made multi-year orders of ammo to be delivered asap (immediately perhaps?) because they already know the date certain of collapse is fast approaching when they will be ‘evacuated’ to their bunkers and defended by their ‘police force’.
IOW, it was founded to undermine and eventually eliminate the role of the Church of Jesus Christ in public affairs - and they are still at it.
"Obama" and his masters are the heirs of the French Revolution.
If their police force is stupid enough to follow them they deserve all the contempt possible from their countrymen.
As Sam Adams put it:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
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