Posted on 01/20/2024 10:07:43 AM PST by TBP
The United States has a wealthy, partisan elite class that’s not only immune from and numb to the problems of their countrymen, but enormously confident in and willing to impose unpopular policies on them.
This is a recipe for disaster.
The problem is starkly illustrated in a new survey Scott Rasmussen conducted on behalf of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, which divided respondents between elites (people with at least one postgraduate degree, earning more than $150,000, living in ZIP codes where the population density exceeds 10,000 per square mile) and the general public.
Rasmussen also recorded the responses of a subset of elites — “super elites,“ if you will — who graduated from a few prestigious private universities, including members of the Ivy League, Duke, Stanford and Northwestern.
It’s near impossible to behold the results and not acknowledge they’re indicative of a fundamental disconnect between two Americas.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They are an arrogant, amoral cult of authoritarian asses. They revel in the harm they do. They believe themselves to be ethically, morally, intellectually, and biologically superior to the "peons" and therefore entitled to run our lives. They care about nothing other than getting as close to absolute power as they possibly can. They seek to restore slavery -- for all of us. Every bit of contempt directed towards them is well-earned.
Because they don’t have to practice what they preach. And since they are wealthy they don’t suffer the financial pains and consequences of what they force on the rest of us.
Excellent article—identifies the key issue of our time.
The elites and wealthy are our enemies—and they have put their thumbs on the scale.
But they are also blind and as dumb as they believe themselves to be smart. Their end game can only result in their own demise as well and they don’t see that. I believe they are of Satan as well
These are dreadful people who make up the ruling class. They will impose misery and government control on all of us. The Climate, race, gender, diversity are the weapons they will use to crush our free will.
Bump for later comment.
The double S…..
Stock market
Stealing
I have never supported taxation.
I have never supported redistribution of wealth.
But I look around at this world run by “the elite” and I start to think that society needs to have a ceiling of maybe $10-20M for rich families. Not even Tom Brady, Bill Gates, Tom Cruise, or Joe Biden needs to have more. Cap ‘em all at $10-20M, including real estate.
The rich are screwing this country. I hate to say that. This is the sort of attitude I have despised my whole life. But something has gone very wrong here.
There is a lot of rash generalization in the thread posts. I’m sure many FReepers fall into that category re income and education, and are not “out of touch”, or “arrogant, amoral authoritarian asses”.
The problem is idle wealth, people with money who have no appreciation as to how wealth is earned.
These are the people that make groups like Black Lives Matter possible.
AT LEAST BRADY & CRUISE are EARNING their wealth.
Elites have a higher trust in government because they feel that they (currently) control it.
I would rather sit down to dinner with Brady & Cruise than any of the others.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
June 28, 1996
by Thomas Sowell (Author)
One of America’s pre-eminent economists offers a provocative critique of the failures of liberalism
In The Vision of the Anointed, Thomas Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.
The didn't make Black Lives MatterTM possible, they create organizations like Black Lives MatterTM to increase their wealth and power. The subverted a Presidential election because their crime syndicates were losing money - money back to the taxpayers who paid it to begin with.
Government does NOT grant our freedom or liberties. They’re our “inalienable rights.” Government exists to protect and defend our rights but it does not “grant” them to us.
Angelo Codevilla laid this all out 15 years ago.
I had to go to diversity classes in the mid 90s. One was taught by a white women who was raised in the suburbs of chicago and claims to have never met a POC til she went to high school. She conveniently concluded that all WHITE people grew up like she did and had to be “re-educated”.
There's a great scene (one of many) in the Paul Newman movie The Verdict, in which the father of the victim says to Paul Newman something like "we're the ones who take the consequences of your mistakes." I wish I could remember the exact words, but that's the gist of it.
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