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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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To: alexander_busek

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.
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Sorry, i voice texted...he cuts into their income, which is based off of...


21 posted on 10/05/2019 5:22:41 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: DeweyCA

re: elementary students

Nearly every teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run universities. This is true for both private and government K-12 schools.

Even if a teacher is conservative, this Marxist worldview will bleed into the classroom. SCARY!


22 posted on 10/05/2019 6:00:47 AM PDT by wintertime (I shun government K-12 teachers.)
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To: coaster123

Their positive value is they collect together a lot of what is going on and provide a view of how the many elements are not really separate issues but all linked in a cultural agenda - a culture destroying agenda. They put a frame around the pieces of the puzzle. To some that is still needed and to some that is useful.

You already know it and don’t need them to clarify for you. You are not everyone in an audience the authors hope to reach. Be patient with everyone else. Maybe if they read this they will begin to get up to your level of understanding.


23 posted on 10/05/2019 6:22:38 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: wintertime

Same thing is true of law enforcement and military, and the people who select and promote leaders in those groups.


24 posted on 10/05/2019 7:28:43 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: momincombatboots

...the intellectual class. They are not intellectuals. Their policies are destructive and a threat to the entire human race, nothing intelligent about that.
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Take it in the sense of Taleb’s ‘Intellectual Yet Idiot’.

In this usage, an intellectual is someone whose work is primarily done sitting at a desk, reading, analyzing and writing or disseminating information. Has little or nothing to do with intelligence, per se. Has zero to do with morality or ethics.

Our vast cadre of Information Technology workers mistake the arcane for the intelligent. So, they align themselves with the academics and others who manipulate data and massage messages.

For a point of light in all this darkness, I consider the democratization of computer tech (IT) via apps and built-in processes plus the ubiquity of marketing/branding expertise to be positive. People who understand how propaganda and computer code work are less likely to be swayed by those who declare themselves masters over these fields of endeavor and then conflate that with mastery over all of society.

So, you are correct about destructive threats, but have misclassed ‘intellectual’ with intelligent.


25 posted on 10/05/2019 7:28:43 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: D Rider

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

You might start by protecting your community and family by electing a pro-2nd amendment, constitutional sheriff in your county.This sheriff has the legal, investigative and armed muscle to take down left-wing threats to your community and family.

This sheriff is accountable to the electorate, as opposed to city cops who pledge fealty to leftist political hacks. I have a sheriff in my county. During his elected tenure thus far, he’s kicked out two leftist police chiefs who were harassing the citizens.


26 posted on 10/05/2019 7:53:57 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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To: Eurotwit

Thanks for posting.

We need to hear some good news—the mass media has gone full retard—hopefully a new generation will turn it around...


27 posted on 10/05/2019 7:57:23 AM PDT by cgbg (Vote Trump or you will _be_ Trump)
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To: DeweyCA

IMO “Millenials” are not even remotely “well-educated”. On virtually every subject they have little at all depth of knowledge. Shallow, shallow thinkers. But because their “self-esteem” has been “boosted” by their being told how wonderful they are, they think otherwise.


28 posted on 10/05/2019 8:02:49 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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To: jjotto

Yes, You are correct. I hadn’t thought of that.


29 posted on 10/05/2019 11:40:55 AM PDT by wintertime (I shun government K-12 teachers.)
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To: jjotto

What can conservatives do?


30 posted on 10/05/2019 11:41:27 AM PDT by wintertime (I shun government K-12 teachers.)
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To: Eurotwit
I think there might be some signs of hope in the youngest generation.

Thanks for something positive!

31 posted on 10/05/2019 1:54:14 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Eurotwit

Young white males are increasingly looking at where they are in current society’s hierarchy, and they don’t like it.


32 posted on 10/05/2019 2:05:52 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist canÂ’t enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others.)
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To: Eurotwit

That’s good news. I hope your students appreciate you.


33 posted on 10/05/2019 2:33:55 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: DeweyCA

bump


34 posted on 10/05/2019 4:38:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Wuli

“Be patient with everyone“

A more than discouraging mindset from someone, I presume, treasures freedom.

Here is sound advice. Time is up. Graduation was a few years ago. If someone is still in the dark it is on them.. at this point they are less than useless. Their best service would be to dry up and blow away. Time is up. Quit catering to the least among us. the ignorant and unreliable. Join those studied to be approved, join those poised to fight.

Not later, now.


35 posted on 10/05/2019 5:31:36 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: coaster123

“A more than discouraging mindset from someone, I presume, treasures freedom.”

No it’s a realistic one; it admits what is in spite of what we like to see different.

Getting there includes the morally good but ignorant becoming better informed. “Evangelization” is important even in politics. We cannot always just be singing to the choir. Sinners are not invited into the church to hopefully remain sinners. They are included and messages directed to them - the morally good but ignorant - hoping some message helps wake them up (they start to see the light) and then they will be urged to become better informed.

Wanting freedom and obtaining it requires an army everyone is invited to join, and needed, not just the already converted.

We win NOT just because some of us are informed, but as MORE become informed.


36 posted on 10/06/2019 8:51:40 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

I knew what you meant the first time. It’s degenerate.


37 posted on 10/06/2019 11:05:40 AM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: coaster123

Ditto to you.


38 posted on 10/06/2019 12:14:07 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Nope, not ditto to me.

Join the side you’re on.


39 posted on 10/06/2019 1:42:25 PM PDT by coaster123 (Distrust everyone under fifty.)
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To: coaster123

There are no conservative elites, which you arrogantly think you are. If our side is weak it is due to folks like you that cannot reach out to anyone.


40 posted on 10/07/2019 6:57:36 AM PDT by Wuli
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