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Who’s to Blame for the Elite Extreme Left?
Independence Institute ^ | February 16, 2024 | Rob Natelson

Posted on 02/25/2024 7:36:57 PM PST by JeepersFreepers

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These extreme leftists, although less than one percent of the population, have inordinate power and influence.

It is indeed alarming that sixty-nine percent of them said that "they would rather cheat on an election than lose one."

1 posted on 02/25/2024 7:36:57 PM PST by JeepersFreepers
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To: JeepersFreepers

Satan


2 posted on 02/25/2024 7:38:27 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: JeepersFreepers

The Hollywood Idiots.


3 posted on 02/25/2024 7:40:55 PM PST by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum )
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“urbanites with post-grad degrees who had income of more than $150,000 per year.”

I wonder if they ignored the latter two criteria, and just polled “urbanites”, if the results would be much different.


4 posted on 02/25/2024 7:42:38 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Who is to blame for the RINOs who undermine everyone who tries to fight back?


5 posted on 02/25/2024 7:45:10 PM PST by AndyJackson
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why does it seem that those with pointy head non-STEM degrees always sticking their noses in everybody else’s business?

I bet they have striped their shorts at least once in their life. I have no love, honor, or respect for pointy headed busybodies.


6 posted on 02/25/2024 7:49:56 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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You beat me to it. I thought the same answer.


7 posted on 02/25/2024 7:53:14 PM PST by BipolarBob (I identify as a Christian Nationalist. Joe Biden hates me.)
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To: JeepersFreepers; Liz; poconopundit

Over seventy percent trust government to do the right thing most of the time. (What planet are they living on?)

Over three quarters want to restrict your right to eat meat and use electricity.

Nearly three-quarters want to abolish your right to have a gasoline-powered car.

Nearly 70% would deprive you of your right to choose a gas stove.

More than two-thirds favor letting teachers (who usually are government employees) dictate to parents what children should be taught.

Decisive majorities would take away our SUVs, air conditioning, and any air travel they deem “non-essential.”

Nearly a third of these people are focused on politics—and the views of that third are even more alarming. For example, 69 percent of them said they would rather cheat on an election than lose one! (The comparable figure among all citizens is only 7 percent.)

We've sensed this for years... but it's even worse than we thought...

8 posted on 02/25/2024 8:00:17 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrat superdelegates created to stop the 'black community' from electring the 'wrong person'...)
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Probably.

The 1/10th of 1% are mostly not urbanites.

They live in Aspen, Maui, Palo Alto etc....Manhattan may be the only urban zip code in the wealthiest 25 that is urban.

leaving most of the wealthiest people that ever lived out of the poll.


9 posted on 02/25/2024 8:01:01 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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> why does it seem that those with pointy head non-STEM degrees always sticking their noses in everybody else’s business? <

Good question. I taught chemistry and then physics for decades in an urban public school district.

My STEM supervisors: “You’re doing nice work! What do you need? What can I do to help?”

My non-STEM supervisors: “I’ve observed you teaching for ten minutes. I never took a single physics class. Nevertheless, let me tell you everything that you did wrong.”
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I think it’s insecurity on the part of the non-STEM folks. They’re behind the curve, and they know it. So they try arrogance and bullying to even things up.

And as a side note, near the end of my career most of my supervisors were non-STEM folks. That’s when I started thinking about an early retirement.


10 posted on 02/25/2024 8:05:08 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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He who pays the piper, calls the tune.
The Elite use their position to prove how virtuous they are. They know what’s good for you


11 posted on 02/25/2024 8:07:14 PM PST by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness. )
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I meant probably not.

I would expect mostly the same responses from any urbanite.

The differentiation may seem great but the $150,000 and college qualifier are really not delineating as they’re all soldiers because they excluded the generals.


12 posted on 02/25/2024 8:09:14 PM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: cowboyusa

trahison des clercs


13 posted on 02/25/2024 8:11:10 PM PST by GOPJ (Democrat superdelegates created to stop the 'black community' from electring the 'wrong person'...)
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To: JeepersFreepers

150K is lower middle class nowadays.


14 posted on 02/25/2024 8:20:20 PM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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To: cowboyusa

GMTA.

That was the exact one word answer I was going to post.


15 posted on 02/25/2024 8:21:41 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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A combination of these two guys. Wilson and Roosevelt. All of progressivism has roots in The Progressive Era


16 posted on 02/25/2024 8:23:49 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (The historians must be stopped. They're destroying everything.)
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Cloward-Piven Strategy from 1966 is a major reason. For the uninitiated, that would be described as “...the strategy of forcing political change leading to societal collapse through orchestrated crises...” . Sadly it appears to me that is exactly what we are witnessing, rather blatantly 60 years later, in the USA at this present time.


17 posted on 02/25/2024 8:45:15 PM PST by Pagey ( Valerie Jarrett IS A DEMON! )
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Elites are the product of our marxist schools.


18 posted on 02/25/2024 9:18:03 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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I wonder how many live in the greater Washington, DC area.


19 posted on 02/25/2024 9:26:38 PM PST by vaskypilot
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To: Leaning Right

my STEM began with electronics set school, then radar set school, then sent to the 35th TFWg, 35th Avionics Maint Sqdrn, George AFB, Victorville, Ca. Yhen my career went from General Dynamics Pomona Branch -Stinger missile components, AIM-7f/Standard Missile III components, PHALAMX CIWS microwave components, to NAVPRO/DPRO Grumman Aerospace, Bethpage, NY, acceptance of various naval aircraft, space shuttle, and ISS assemblies.

In all of this, I attempted and was one class short of my 4 yyear degree, when Dowling College had the bright idea to raise .their tuition +$400, and change it to a 5 year degree. I ccould not afford that, and living in NY in the ‘80s on 22k gross left no wriggle room, and i was beyond the VA window, so I stopped.


20 posted on 02/25/2024 9:31:04 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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