Posted on 08/27/2022 11:55:18 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Elites have always been ambiguous about the muscular classes who replace their tires, paint their homes, and cook their food. And the masses who tend to them likewise have been ambivalent about those who hire them: appreciative of the work and pay, but also either a bit envious of those with seemingly unlimited resources or turned off by perceived superciliousness arising from their status and affluence.
Yet the divide has grown far wider in the 21st century. Globalization fueled the separation in a number of ways.
One, outsourcing and offshoring eroded the Rust Belt interior, while enriching the two coasts. The former lost good-paying jobs, while the latter found new markets in investment, tech, insurance, law, media, academia, entertainment, sports, and the arts making them billions rather than mere millions.
So, the problem was one of both geography and class. Half the country looked to Asia and Europe for profits and indeed cultural “diversity,” while the other half stuck with tradition, values, and custom — as they became poorer.
The elite found in the truly poor — neglecting their old union-member, blue-collar Democratic base — an outlet for their guilt, noblesse oblige, condescension at a safe distance, call it what you will. The poor if kept distant were fetishized, while the middle class was demonized for lacking the taste of the professional classes and romance of the far distant underclass.
Second, race became increasingly divorced from class — a phenomenon largely birthed by guilty, wealthy, white elites and privileged, diverse professionals. For the white bicoastal elite, it became a mark of their progressive bona fides to champion woke racialism that empowered the non-white of their own affluent class, while projecting their own discomfort with and fears of the nonwhite poor onto the middle class as supposed “racists,” ...
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They need us. We certainly don’t need them.
“I need an art history major.” said no plumber ever.
There is no way I count these idiots as my “rulers”.
They are to be resisted and nullified continually.
Taking this to the election would work for Rs across the country but then again the stupid party isn’t interested in creative thinking.
Proof positive, I just saw a Marco Rubio ad on TV...
Bingo!
We do not have rulers. We have hired people to administrate our stairs affairs under our supervision. Eff that they are our rulers.
Thanks for posting this.
This may be VDH’s best oped ever.
AmeriKa’s elites are intent on destroying America’s middle class and the non democrat voters, which will destroy the America where our grandparents, parents and we grew up.
AmeriKa’s elites are aided/abetted by their owned and controlled mediots 24/7!
Just wanted to read that again. It's testimony of an eyewitness.
The democrats used to be the party of the factory floor. Now, they’re the party of the faculty lounge, and the policies propagated by those in the lounge are coming back to bite them in the butt!
The “elites” fear the middle class, because we produce people who can displace them from the hierarchy.
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk — all started out middle class.
Academia survives on government Grant’s. Advancement comes from being able to please government grant committees.
Sweep away the academic grant process, and the universities all fall down.
“Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk — all started out middle class.”
Not Bill Gates. I don’t know about the others. If ones Mommy is on the board of IBM then one is not middle class.
They aren’t listening to their supervisors...
Democrats have become the Eugine Mccarthy party.
THIS IS WHY TRUMP WAS HATED SO MUCH, THE WORKING CLASS WAS MOVING UP.There is nothing the elites hate more. RFK/ Reagan Kemp working and Middle Class Conservative is rising.
Note tagline.
His father was a big time lawyer that hobnobbed with the rich including Rockefeller and Ted Turner.
Bill Gates mom was on the board of United Way, where she met the CEO of IBM. She was in the old-money elite, but not a billionaire
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