the upper classes are now and always ruled America
Here in Dekalb County, Ga, I’ve witnessed the upper middle class mafia at work for decades. While the rest of the formerly top notch schools in the county went to hell due to overdevelopment of HUD apartments, certain areas
remained pristine.
The areas that escaped the HUD curse have public elementary schools that rival the best private schools.
If you go to a public meeting regarding schools in Dekalb,
there’s invariably some affluent turd that will get up and moan about hows this going to affect.... Fernbank, Oakgrove, Livsey, Austin, Vanderlynn, ( or one of the magnet schools that the well to do always seems to get picked in the lottery).
The same turds that complain about how “my area” (thats Mine! Mine! all mine!) is going to be affected
never express a rats ass worth of regret that everybody
else is getting screwed.
Anyone lucky enough to have a home in one of the golden school attendance areas here can count on their home being worth anywhere from 50 to 200K more then the comparably sized homes a mile away in a crappier school district.
The upper middle class bunch attend meetings like
nobody’s business. Dad’s a lawyer, physician, college prof. The money’s such that mom doesn’t work, or do the mom thing full time ( that’s what the au pair is for).
Consequently, mom spends all of her time at meetings that affect everybody, but only the chosen few can get off work to put in their two cents worth.
I tend to disagree with almost everything Slate says. This time, I think the author is right on the money.
Finally, those home shows. Almost everybody on those shows, straight or gay acts like the world is going to come to an immediate end if they can’t have granite counter tops in their kitchens. Bleh.