Posted on 11/15/2018 5:43:16 PM PST by RightGeek
A truer examination of a serious American problem could not be had.
In his new book, Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution, Tucker Carlson gets to the heart of the seriously bad situation that confronts America.
Ship of Fools is, says the opening flap of the book, “the story of the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events from the stands in skyboxes. They have total contempt for you.”
In thumbnail, that could not possibly be a more accurate description of American elites, not to mention the reaction they produced: the election of Donald Trump. As someone who long ago left the precincts of Inside the Beltway Washington, D.C. to come home to the wilds of Central Pennsylvania, it was plain what was coming down the pike in November of 2016. This area was awash in Trump signs. They were everywhere, even hand-painted on the sides of barns. As it were, this was a sure sign of what Tucker describes this way:
Trump’s election wasn’t about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class. It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, the end result of decades of selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy countries don’t elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do.
Bingo.
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Not spared in this book — as well they should not be — is the GOP Washington Establishment. Tucker lasers in on outgoing Speaker Paul Ryan
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(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
*self-ping for later read*
Bush League Republicans and Democrats have been carrying out a bipartisan plan to flood America with fraudulently documented foreigners for 30 years and blocking any attempt by the citizens to stop it.
Yes. More previous uses listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_fools
See my tag line.
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I have the book on audible and I love it.
And to think PRyno is from (dual assembly line) GM Assembly Plant dominated Janesville, Wisc.
I seriously loathe that establishment and especially Weanermobile Ryan and those like him in the GOP. they are even worse than the dems. At least the dems are openly the enemy of the American people. The GOPe pretends to be for working class Americans in front of the camera then behind closed doors it's another thing entirely.
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A conservative critique of the “ruling class”? ‘Bout damned time. The political roles are reversing. Conservatism is the new revolution. The JBS/Tea Party has been railing on about the “Eastern Liberal Establishment” of old money and globalist Wall St. tycoons since the 1950’s. Google “Prescott Bush” next to “Nazi Germany” to see who our former Bush family heroes really are. Read Carrol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope” and Anthony Sutton’s “Wall St. and the Rise of Hitler” to find out who the real enemy is. The reason conservatism has its back against the wall has been a chronic inability to separate the concept of capitalism from the concept of monopolism. Capitalism good. Monopolism bad.
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