Posted on 08/03/2023 10:35:09 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Anti-Trump New York Times columnist David Brooks shocked political commentators on Twitter when he admitted he and the so-called "elite" have used self-serving tactics to maintain power and a sense of moral superiority over the Trump supporters they detest.
"I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys. In fact, we’re the bad guys," Brooks wrote in a column Wednesday.
"Over the last decades we’ve taken over whole professions and locked everybody else out," Brooks wrote of the liberal elite in America. The column detailed how the "educated class" imagine themselves as the "forces of progress and enlightenment" to appease their own egos, as part of a broader tale that paints them as enlightened and Trump supporters as bigots and fools.
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He’s right. The elites are the bad guys. A reckoning is coming.
Read the article. After much self aggradizement about how members of his class are so much better educated, elite, etc, he concludes that they are doing the right thing (see below) .
“Are Trump supporters right that the indictments are just a political witch hunt? Of course not. As a card-carrying member of my class, I still basically trust the legal system and the neutral arbiters of justice. Trump is a monster in the way we’ve all been saying for years and deserves to go to prison.
The problem with the so call educated class is they think that are the only intelligent people ..
went the reality of their education is a very narrow collective dogmatic view of reality...then are intellectual inbred ...
I have some fancy degrees of my own but found out quickly the lesson from Godfather III:
“The higher I go, the crookeder it becomes.”
I never liked the idea of being just another self-dealing lying scheming backstabbing sociopath.
Bkmrk
Atlas has to shrug. And then he has to pick up a gun.
Article: “I still basically trust the legal system”.
I want some of what he is smoking!
I wouldn’t read his slime if they paid me
Rush had him pegged years and years and years ago
Right, they produce nothing and contribute nothing to the greater good.
Brooks looking for redemption by Confession before Judgement Day?
Ayn Rand doesn’t understand anything, and doesn’t have any solutions.
The people who want to win will always defeat those who just want to be left alone.
Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.
The current “elites” are of mediocre intelligence, who dimly understand that they are only “elite” because of the wealth and connections they inherited from their parents.
They understand that there are lots of non-elites out there who are younger, smarter, and more energetic than them.
This frightens them.
Stealing your last sentence for my new tagline.
David Brooks...the moron who got the giggles when talking about the crease in Obola’s pants.
“Article: “I still basically trust the legal
Damn right him and he his caste trusts the legal system. They can do basically anything and never spend a day in jail. Ask Sam Bankman Fried, ask Hunter Biden.
I don't like analogies but it's as if the United States had hundreds of thousands of restaurants in the 80's but a 'liberal elite' takeover made all of them ONLY serve the taste and preferences of 'elties'... and the rest of us are left out and can't even afford to go out - no less enjoy the expensive and creepy 'fashionalble' food served.
It's nice David Brooks is getting a clue - but it's also a threat.
Liberal 'elites' can easily be dismissed as 'nuts or vile' if they're pushing crap like "75 million Americans are members of a cult'... etc. We all know the BS they say about us is insane. But if they can target us because they're starting to understand us their tactics might become more effective.
(People in the black community are starting to use the term 'white liberals' to mean the same thing we say as 'liberal elites'... everyone is starting to hate them... we're all catching on)
Have you looked inside academia recently? It’s too toxic to believe. Being “uneducated” (as they define it) ain’t such a bad thing.
Yes.
And that is why they are setting up barriers to entry for elite positions.
Degrade the quality of the public schools, to reduce potential competition.
Use Ivy League degrees as a screen for any elite position. Then get rid of objective academic qualifications for those schools, instead with weight on the “application essay” where they can screen for Regime supporting woke.
(also scream about “equity” while maintaining legacy admissions at the Ivies)
This is a well worn path of elite decay and decline.
For example In the UK prior to WW2, entry to Oxford or Cambridge required Classics (ie Latin and Greek) which the private schools taught, and the state schools did not.
And an Oxbridge degree was the requirement for an elite position.
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