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The elite fear for their status and authority. This explains everything.


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2021 Aug 20, 11:06am   9,483 views  74 comments

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The elite are very insecure since the election of Trump. Trump represents populism, their worst nightmare.

Populism is the idea that ordinary people who did not attend Ivy League schools are as capable of governing as the elite who did.

Note that Trump, though a billionaire, did not attend an Ivy League school and does not have the manners or ideas or the elite.

This makes him a mortal threat to that elite, especially because he demonstrated the ability to avoid wars and boost the economy quite well in spite of being an outsider.

And so their Ivy League degrees and other signs and symbols of being better than everyone else have been devalued. Everything they worked for to separate themselves and place themselves on a pedestal above the hoi polloi is being devalued as they are publicly proven over and over to be incompetent and venal, not deserving of any authority at all.

Thatcher and Trump refused to give the automatic respect many academics feel is their due. They gave the impression that they could see right through us, an uncomfortable feeling.


This elite perceived what was happening in national politics as a deadly challenge to its own status.
- Thomas Frank on why the elite hated Trump

And so the mandatory jabs are the latest expression of the obviously psychotic and desperate attempts of the elite to achieve utter obedience to their "superior wisdom". They are also a way to filter those obedient to the incompetent and venal elite from those who are not obedient so that they can be killed.

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70   Patrick   2024 Mar 5, 10:36pm  

AmericanKulak says

One thing I've noticed is that the managerial classes WANT their kids to get pozzed with woke in Private Schools.

It's the engineers, chemists, etc. that are not in management that get upset over Whole Math and CRT and Queer Theory in those Private Schools. As non-managers, they don't see all the 'benefits' of signalling in memos from HR and DEI and everything else; they're working on actual projects.


@AmericanKulak

Yes, the article argues that that's exactly correct. It's a massive virtue-signaling clusterfuck feedback loop. Competence is no longer relevant for promotions.
74   Patrick   2024 Mar 29, 2:32pm  

https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/us-news/batya-ungar-sargon-calls-trump-the-working-class-voice-in-book/




“We think of this country as having a political divide, but we are actually not divided politically,” she told The Post. “The real divide in this country is along class lines — between an over-credentialed college elite and the working class.”

Though she has a PhD herself and admits to being “100% of the class I critique,” she’s motivated to give a voice to the working class who, she says, have been robbed of a platform by politicians and journalists from the elite echelons of society.

“I simply cannot stand to see the good-hearted working-class people of this country smeared by the left that sold them out,” she said. “We simply have evicted the working class from public view. We just don’t hear from them anymore, even though they represent most Americans.”

Ungar-Sargon’s extensive interviews for “Second Class” reveal a common thread: that working-class Americans, regardless of their personal characteristics or political affiliation, generally agree on which political reforms would improve their lives.

The author realized that working-class Americans largely share the same view on stricter border control and trade tariffs that favor domestic industry.

“The open border hurts them economically in a very real way by driving down their wages — and that’s obvious to people, whether they are Democrats or Republicans,” she explained.

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