Posted on 08/01/2017 7:41:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Six months later...CNN's Fareed Zakaria has it figured out. Or at least he thinks he does.
Donald Trump became President Trump, the host mused, because Americans wanted to stick it to the elites.
"The election of Donald Trump is really a kind of class rebellion against people like us, educated professionals who live in cities, who have cosmopolitan views about things," Zakaria said.
"There's a part of America that is sick and tired of being told what to do by this overeducated population that Hillary Clinton perfectly represented. That's why they're sticking with him," he continued. (Free Beacon)
Zakaria went on to argue that during the campaign Trump monopolized on the "ugly racial animus" many voters already felt having to endure eight years of a black president. They felt threatened, Zakaria suggested, that minorities were beginning to try to claim the dominant status once held by the "white working man."
How often have we heard these same excuses from liberals? Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton blamed racism and sexism for her loss too - along with, of course, Russia and FBI Director James Comey. She's even writing a book what she thinks happened.
Now, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is finally admitting what the rest of us already knew - Hillary was an awful candidate. They had the right message, he argued. They just didn't have the right messenger.
Yet, too many "astute" analysts like Zakaria fail to consider that maybe Americans voted Trump into office because they liked his ideas and the direction he wanted to take the country.
Nope. His demographics were misogynist, prejudiced buffoons.
Same narrative, different narrator.
It only took him 10 months to figure that out................swift as molasses in January.................
Now the elites know what it’s like to be the stickee.
I’m glad he feels that way.
I only wish I could have delivered it personally.
Trump’s win was the citizens registering their disgust with BOTH parties refusal to enforce the laws and borders.
The elites want to keep their 30 year bipartisan policy of non-enforcement to permanently change the demographics of the country.
America’s “ELITE” are sitting on the side of mountain in Afghanistan at this very moment.
Don’t make them prove it!
Zakaria...they name is delusional. Even if you're half right, delusional you remain....
File this guy under the title...
Okay Fareed, which would you rather have?
A slap in the face to wake you up or get
kicked in the ass on your way out the door?
feel free to move to another country assh*le ..
Fareed is an elite forever idiot in the Intellectual Yet Idiot class which tells us where to live, what to drive, how to think, what to eat and who to vote for.
Our Governments, Universities/Colleges and many businesses/corporations are controlled and operated by the Intellectual Yet Idiots, who have been controlling our lives for decades. These Intellectual Yet Idiots control our media and most of DC and many states down to the county/city level.
Nassim Taleb Exposes The World’s “Intellectual-Yet-Idiot” Class!
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?, but their main skills is ability to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game policymaking “clerks” and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league, Oxford-Cambridge, or similar label-driven education who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for.
But the problem is the one-eyed following the blind: these self-described members of the “intelligenzia” can’t find a coconut in Coconut Island, meaning they aren’t intelligent enough to define intelligence and fall into circularities?—?but their main skills is capacity to pass exams written by people like them.
With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3th of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons.
Indeed one can see that these academico-bureaucrats wanting to run our lives aren’t even rigorous, whether in medical statistics or policymaking. They can’t tell science from scientism?—?in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. (For instance it is trivial to show the following: much of what the Cass-Sunstein-Richard Thaler types?—?those who want to “nudge” us into some behavior?—?much of what they call “rational” or “irrational” comes from their misunderstanding of probability theory and cosmetic use of first-order models.)
This is an excerpt. To read or copy the full article go to the link below:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-16/nassim-taleb-exposes-worlds-intellectual-yet-idiot-class
What, exactly, is ‘elite’ about you Zakaria? You went to Yale and Harvard. Fine. Good schools, but there are without a doubt a large number of people who went to state schools or didn’t attend a university at all who are brighter than you. Plus, you didn’t do difficult majors. You’re not an engineer, a scientist, an advanced IT person, or anything that requires logic and/or the ability to apply deductive reasoning skills.
Further, you got into those schools BECAUSE you fit their ‘diversity’ criteria and their desire to see themselves as ‘institutions of the world’ instead of just American Universities (being an American University is like being a ‘Chevy’ to them; they want to be Bentley’s). I highly doubt whether you would have gotten a second look if your last name was Koczinski and you grew up in a Catholic family on the North side of Chicago. Personally, hearing your opinions, I’d have to say you have a very insular world view, and aren’t particularly insightful. We’ve all seen this before from Ivy graduates.
If you are ‘elite’, then whatever standards are used to define such an arrogant term have fallen to new lows.
You are absolutely correct. Nicely put.
[Zakaria went on to argue that during the campaign Trump monopolized on the “ugly racial animus” many voters already felt having to endure eight years of a black president.]
And its precisely because of this tiresome rhetoric from the so-called elites.
If Trump can hold onto the working class demographic, he wins from here on out.
He has to keep framing the narrative that the elite want the status quo and are blocking his agenda at every turn. They are working against the common man. Working people of all races can rally behind that.
Ah, true colors of Zakaria: “how dare the serfs revolt!”
People like z are “elitists” only in their own delusional minds. What a fool.
Zakaria is a Konkani Muslim ·Rafiq Zakaria · Asif Zakaria · Fareed Zakaria GPS
ZAKARIA, THE HIGHLY PLACED ENEMY WITHIN
Richard W. writes:
On Monday night Fox News Special Report played a clip of Fareed Zakaria saying that we over-reacted to 9/11 and praising Hezbollah as a model of tolerance.
Where did Fareed come from and why are we now being lectured to by a foreign-born anti-Semite on CNN? Why was he made editor-at-large of Time?
I understand that the foreign-born have contributed many great things to the USA, but the area where their expertise and talents is clearly most suspect, in my opinion, is the role of lecturing the rest of us what to think about foreign policy. It seems now that two once important institutions have fallen to the infiltration alien jihad supporters, dressed up as our intellectual betters.
And yes, Zakaria is a Muslim.
Here and here are articles reporting Zakaria’s comments.
LA replies:
Zakaria is an alien in our midst, building his career on his identity as a fashionable alien who lectures the natives on the need to give up their country and adapt to the global community, particularly to Islam. He represents the “New Society” that globalists are attempting to turn American into. Every step in America’s weakening and loss of identity, means the strengthening and advance of Zakaria and his career and his importance.
Zakaria started out as a member of the neocon circle. Then in the late 1990s he began to move left. Then, when he made himself the journalistic representative of the new, non-white, non-Western, Islamified America, his career really took off.
http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/017478.html
Yeah and there’s more where that came from.
This morning, when I read this Zakaria piece, I kinda thought the same thing. It would have made sense to do a report like this in December 2016...entitled, How Hillary Lost. Waiting ten months?
I think that Zakaria probably took some leave in May and traveled somewhere around the US heartland and struck up conversations with different people and came to realize that they weren’t buying into CNN’s concept, or the intellectual argument presented.
But the real question at this point....now what? If you were CNN, or the DNC...knowing that the general public isn’t buying the ‘talk’ of the past five years, where do go to rebuild your message and theme? How do they reach people like this? I think they have a bigger problem once Zakaria’s entire program is presented.
Another acronym:
Elites = Exposed Liberal Idiots Eating S%&t
Fits you well, zakky!
Wonder what would happen to Zakaria if he had to live out in the real world????
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