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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Is this the queer who in 2008 wrote about how he was staring at Obama’s @ss and admiring the cut of his trousers?
Is this the same guy who fell in love with Obama, after seeing the crease of his pants?
+1
They will never just leave us alone, or allow “neutral” institutions to protect us.
They myth of “neutral” institutions is a BoomerCon delusion, and the source of almost every conservative defeat.
“We know what it would like—downtown San Francisco, Seattle, Portland.”
You underestimate the enemy...it will look more like nazi germany, soviet union, communist china. They will kill tens of millions of us and lock most of the rest up in their version of concentration camp. Don’t fool yourself with such naivety.
Yep, now you know why I “liberally” describe him by the thing that defines him.
Yep, now you know why I “liberally” describe him by the thing that defines him.
"David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a conservative political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times."
Yep, that’s good for a laugh!
“the people who write the rules rig the game “
It’s worse than elite-ness. They’re dishonest.
This article has all the honesty of a guy who has been looking in a mirror for 25 years, and finally realizes that the person looking back at him is a flaming @sshole.
Somebody getting red pilled?
"We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation," Brooks wrote.
OK David Brooks - here's the problem with this part of your article: at it's core it's wrong and it's a big part of the problem. Why? Because mother nature doesn't 'work' that way. Two intelligent grown-ups can have children and pour money and the 'best of everything into them' but reality is that there's a regression to the mean. That means that "Ronnie" Reagan unlikely to be as smart or capable as his father.. It means the best private schools in DC created Hunter Biden and his nutty sister. And John Kerry's corrupt son in law and Al Gore... It means the honest path to leadership has been cut off from the best and most capable and handed to 'the privileged' and not to the intellectually privileged or the Merit privileged - it means power goes to 'the manor born' bimbos and pretentious 'men' of parents who want to pretend their kids are as smart as they are... the 'elite' flaw that's bringing down the country.
And how does that play out in reality?
It means there are still 'Thomas Jefferson's and Abe Lincolns being born - but they're working in a library or starting a small company. Legendary journalists in today's culture are loan officers in local banks or writing ads for car shops and grocery stores. The best jobs go to the 'very average' offspring of the 'elties' with pull and to the groups that prop up the power of 'elites'.
So, who's 'allowed' to hold office? White liberal 'elties' and their 'pets' - the 'pets' who prop them us... the folks democrats fund with every penny they can spare from themselves... Lucky for us their 'pets' are catching on to the fact their communities are becoming hellholes under the phony 'kindness' of the self serving elites...
"We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation," Brooks wrote.
OK David Brooks - here's the problem with this part of your article: at it's core it's wrong and it's a big part of the problem. Why? Because mother nature doesn't 'work' that way. Two intelligent grown-ups can have children and pour money and the 'best of everything into them' but reality is that there's a regression to the mean.
That means "Ronnie" Reagan's unlikely to be as smart or capable as his father.. It means the best private schools in DC created Hunter Biden and his nutty sister. And John Kerry's corrupt son in law and Al Gore... It means the honest path to leadership has been cut off from the best and most capable and handed to 'the privileged' and not to the intellectually privileged or the Merit privileged - it means power goes to 'the manor born' bimbos and pretentious 'men' of parents who want to pretend their kids are as smart as they are... the 'elite' flaw that's bringing down the country.
And how does that play out in reality?
It means there are still 'Thomas Jefferson's and Abe Lincolns being born - but they're working in a library or starting a small company. Legendary journalists in today's culture are loan officers in local banks or writing ads for car shops and grocery stores. The best jobs go to the 'very average' offspring of the 'elties' with pull and to the groups that prop up the power of 'elites'.
So, who's 'allowed' to hold office? White liberal 'elties' and their 'pets' - the 'pets' who prop them us... the folks democrats fund with every penny they can spare from themselves... Lucky for us their 'pets' are catching on to the fact their communities are becoming hellholes under the phony 'kindness' of the self serving elites...
He may be like Bill Maher. It could be that he thinks the Democrats are going too far. There are still some JFK types left out there. Liberal. But they're not totalitarian.
Trump - Ivy League (Wharton)
Biden - Syracuse U 75th out of 85 in his class
This fatuous blowhard thinks Trump supporters are dumb and uneducated because they don’t study critical racism theory. Meanwhile Trump builds hundreds of 40 story luxury apartments all over the world, and none of these idiots know how to use a screwdriver. They are idiots educated by other idiots who listen to each other misuse big words to string together nonsense projectile vomit like Kamala “unburdened by what has been” Harris. No Democrats in my foxhole please.
The pathetic thing about Brooks is he thinks the “Educated” are all liberals. Elon Musk went to MIT. My guess is that while 90% of the faculty at Ivy schools are leftists, maybe 60% of the graduates are. And in my experience the leftists are struggling poor wanna-be writers, beat poets, some already dead of overdoses even though they went to St. Paul’s and Williams. The VC guys and investment bankers would vote for Trump because they know what it takes to actually build something instead of tear it down like get-out-of-jail freaks in SF NYC and Larry Krasner’s Pilly nightmare. Brooks is in a bubble and can’t even see it. The Trump supporter is not going to waste time reading “white fragility”. They end up with more money and a better life by not sucking up to David Brooks.
Your #72/73 is an outstanding post!
Absolute agreement.
Thanks tomkat...
Ok...seems the times MAY be changing and Brooks wants to be on front line...
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