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Elites against western civilization
City Journal ^ | 10-3-19 | Joel Kotkin

Posted on 10/04/2019 8:29:14 PM PDT by DeweyCA

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This is somewhat similar to Angelo Codevilla's article on "The Ruling Class." These articles describe the elitist attitude of the Left and how they are purposefully destroying traditional American values, so that they can impose their new feudal system on us.
1 posted on 10/04/2019 8:29:14 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

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2 posted on 10/04/2019 8:48:33 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: DeweyCA
“These articles describe..”

Does anyone need a description? Who is in the dark?

These articles waste time as they pretend to... what? What is even the ostensive purpose?

3 posted on 10/04/2019 8:56:11 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: DeweyCA

See From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun. It’s his masterpiece. He tells the story of Western Civilization from its birth to today. Our civilization is in an even more advanced state of decay now than when he wrote it. The US is the last best hope but we are barely holding on.


4 posted on 10/04/2019 8:57:54 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: DeweyCA

None of this comes as any surprise, but it’s an excellent short summary of what we’re up against.


5 posted on 10/04/2019 8:59:46 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

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6 posted on 10/04/2019 9:16:34 PM PDT by stockpirate (Anyone who believes Epstein killed himself is a fool)
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To: DeweyCA

I hope it is not annoying but I have posted this on other threats. The elites do hate President Trump simply because he cuts him to there in which is based off of selling out the United States and making themselves rich. Here is what I think is going to happen however I do think President Trump in the United States Patriots win in the end. I have read Toffler’s books.

have been thinking and I would like everyone’s opinion on this. Or whoever cares to reply. I believe Hillary Clinton will enter the race yet again. However that said the Democrats know that the impeachment thing will go to nothing. They also know that nobody can stand on the stage with and debate president Trump. So why would they think that they can run anybody and win? I think the answer to that lies in how much money that they have to buy anything they want including catastrophic events... which I believe probably explains why Valerie Jarrett and Obama and Soros and a bunch of other people have been rather quiet for quite some time. Rush Limbaugh today described finally how the whole pay-to-play thing works and why so many Democrats and Republicans are not interested in pursuing weeding out corruption because they are all benefiting richly. Maintaining that lifestyle and remaining free and not in prison is something they have to defend tooth and nail. I believe the only reason that Hillary Clinton would get in the race is because she believes that some concocted scheme would actually work...and that might actually be some fantastical financial, catastrophic event or some physical catastrophic event which all of her connections with China, Russia, Ukraine, and other Muslim countries who paid immense amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation might buy said dastardly engineered catastrophic event. I don’t think this is too fantastical to believe - I really don’t - because remember these people want to stay out of prison and they want to stay very rich and they want to run the world. And I believe they are backed in a corner and when you have a caged animal in a corner this is what you get. Just my two cents.


7 posted on 10/04/2019 9:24:31 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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Personally, I think it is a very good article, and the purpose must surely be to give and share a correct description of what is going on in the world around us.

I would think, a shared realization of how our entire civilization is in perhaps mortal peril, is a prerequisite before any meaningful actions or countermeasures can be taken.

First on the agenda must be to uphold the first ammendment at all costs, because it will be the one weapon we have to eventually push back against this evil.

No wonder then that the NY Times attacked today the second and first ammendments both...

Those two ammenmends is the line in the sand.

Here and no further.


8 posted on 10/04/2019 9:31:01 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: colorado tanker

I work in education and you know what?

Believe it or not..

I think there might be some signs of hope in the youngest generation. Polls show declining support for many of the cornerstones of the liberal agenda for the first time in living memory, and I also run into such attitutes often from my college students.

Particularly the younger ones..


9 posted on 10/04/2019 9:35:54 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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I do not think that it sounds too fantastical at all for what it is worth.

Honestly, I am really worried about the time ahead.


10 posted on 10/04/2019 9:38:55 PM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: DeweyCA

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11 posted on 10/04/2019 9:47:06 PM PDT by Mercat
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There are reasons that the elites are against western civilization:

1) they don’t believe in God — all is permitted
2) they want to be cosmopolitan and at the top of the globalist food chain while still being “liberated” or “woke”
3) they believe they are “rebels” “progressives” and “artists” outside the daily drudgery of commonplace norms. Flattery and obsequious behavior are essential requirements of their staff, i.e., Robert Di Nero
4) if there is no God — they are Gods: in other words, they fall back on their solipsistic vanity, ego and desires
5) money, in great part, allows them their romantic, hedonistic, self-serving ideals

If you get rid of God and have plenty of cash all the rest follows.


12 posted on 10/04/2019 10:33:57 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: DeweyCA

Social Engineering - Future Feudalism


13 posted on 10/04/2019 10:34:45 PM PDT by indthkr
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They had a plan to get there, then followed it for couple of generations.

So ok, that's great. But whats our plan?

14 posted on 10/04/2019 10:56:16 PM PDT by D Rider
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Good summary. Rejection of God (and elevation of self) along with affluence create a situation where people can indulge their fantasies of being their own “sophisticated” god, to whom the mundane rules of life don’t apply.


15 posted on 10/04/2019 11:18:15 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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[...] simply because he cuts him to there in which is based off of selling out the United States and making themselves rich.

Thanks for your two cents, but this subordinate clause makes no sense.

Regards,

16 posted on 10/04/2019 11:26:09 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: DeweyCA

Your target is too amorphous,these globalist must first destroy all vestiges of Christianity. We must resist.


17 posted on 10/05/2019 1:41:52 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: colorado tanker

The cancer and its web are entrenched here in America. The deep state Weaponized government is attacking its leader elected by the people for ultimate and lasting control


18 posted on 10/05/2019 2:36:18 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: DeweyCA

I stopped reading when he called them the intellectual class. They are not intellectuals. Their policies are destructive and a threat to the entire human race, nothing intelligent about that. They are correctly called the ruling class, with its inherent nepotism. America wanted a king instead of being responsible for their own lives.
Free healthcare and monthly checks all around. It certainly doesn’t take an intellectual to figure out folks want to sit at home and get paid out os someone else’s wallet.


19 posted on 10/05/2019 4:42:04 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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20 posted on 10/05/2019 4:47:21 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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