Posted on 06/03/2021 6:08:13 PM PDT by george76
Among the chief characteristics of the people running America’s institutions are arrogance and a dogged unwillingness to be held accountable. Both have lately been on prominent display at Yale University.
Yale is a nonprofit corporation and a very wealthy one
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The disgrace was that, even before the election result was announced, the Yale board met in secret and abolished the petition process. Apparently, even the possibility that an outsider might challenge the insiders’ choices was intolerable...
a small group now controls a multibillion-dollar corporation, with no real accountability.
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the governing body of Yale University is a law unto itself. That’s bad for Yale, which already suffers from a bloated administration, poor faculty morale and anemic alumni giving, which is likely to become even more anemic in the future.
But it’s worse for the nation, because Yale isn’t alone. The people running most of our major institutions seem to suffer from the same mindset.
As the pandemic especially underscored, the people who run our institutions look with disdain at those they are supposed to serve. They think that they’re so much smarter and better than everyone else, which entitles them to have their way, without interference from the unwashed masses
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Our tech overlords at Google, Facebook, Amazon and .. likewise regard their customers with contempt. And the people who run our news organizations are deeply impressed with themselves, though their brilliance is rarely in evidence.
One could tolerate elite highhandedness — if the elites in question are, in fact, effective servant elites. But as the just-released Fauci e-mails show, the team of “experts” who coordinated our pandemic response was in fact poorly informed, often dishonest and sometimes deliberately manipulative of the public.
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Our elites’ eagerness to escape accountability reveals a bitter truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
does anyone wonder why so many of our “esteemed” leaders think they are above accountability? hint many of them indoctrinated with such ideas at Yale or similar places.
The Emperor has no clothes.
Defund “academia.”
Isn’t it strange that the people who claim to care about “democracy” are content letting themselves be governed by unelected health “experts” and unaccountable tech oligarchs?
The "progressive" idea of democracy is the elites tell the people what to think.
One of those things is the elites are always correct, and should never be held to account.
The people are supposed to vote the way they are told.
Those at Yale may think of themselves as elites but they regularly show themselves to be lessors.
Ever been to Yale? My son and I went looking for it one night while on vacation. Everywhere around it there were drug busts going on. Yale is a real SHIT hole!
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