Posted on 10/12/2017 5:09:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
To be a normal American is to constantly be scolded, to be lectured, to be treated as a morally bankrupt simpleton in need of the guidance and direction provided by an urban elite ruling class notable for its empty academic credentials, its track record of incompetence, and its idolization of people who erotically abuse the foliage.
If we are to have betters, is it so wrong for us to demand that they actually be better? Superiors should be distinguished by their superiority – if you presume to take charge shouldn’t you demonstrate tactical, technical, and moral mastery? So what has our ruling class mastered lately? What is the skill set that sets the smart set apart?
Are they our betters because of the degrees they hang on the walls of their over-priced, open-floor plan townhouses? Going to college used to mean something more than you had nowhere else to go after high school. It was a training ground for the leadership class. A college student was an invitee to an intellectual banquet where he could sample the best of Western civilization, of art and literature, of civics and philosophy. But today, it’s all gender studies and grade inflation, with whiny social justice warriors drowning out any voice that won’t sing in tune. It is steam table trays heaped with gray, fatty meat and limp asparagus - the Golden Corral of the mind.
To be a normal American is to constantly be scolded, to be lectured, to be treated as a morally bankrupt simpleton in need of the guidance and direction provided by an urban elite ruling class notable for its empty academic credentials, its track record of incompetence, and its idolization of people who erotically abuse the foliage.
If we are to have betters, is it so wrong for us to demand that they actually be better? Superiors should be distinguished by their superiority – if you presume to take charge shouldn’t you demonstrate tactical, technical, and moral mastery? So what has our ruling class mastered lately? What is the skill set that sets the smart set apart?
Are they our betters because of the degrees they hang on the walls of their over-priced, open-floor plan townhouses? Going to college used to mean something more than you had nowhere else to go after high school. It was a training ground for the leadership class. A college student was an invitee to an intellectual banquet where he could sample the best of Western civilization, of art and literature, of civics and philosophy. But today, it’s all gender studies and grade inflation, with whiny social justice warriors drowning out any voice that won’t sing in tune. It is steam table trays heaped with gray, fatty meat and limp asparagus - the Golden Corral of the mind.
The bipartisan ruling class knows what’s up; it’s just deeply cynical and thinks we’re too stupid to spot the scam. Take Bob Corker, please. So, this guy is supposed to be one of the honorable mandarins of the Senate, a deeply committed public servant standing up to that big meanie Donald Trump? This is one of our betters? He mouths off at Trump and Trump, being Trump, shoots back on Twitter. And here come the vapors – how dare Trump not just stand there and take his dressing down from this paragon of pargonness?
Then the media, the enabling Felonia von Pantsuit to the establishment’s Bill Clinton, starts talking about how Trump needs Corker’s vote for tax reform and how it was totally stupid and dumb and stupid for Trump to insult a guy whose vote he needs and … wait a minute. Did you detect a troubling premise within that line of reasoning? Did you notice how the media simply assumes that it’s just fine for Bob Corker to block critical reforms that will help normal Americans because his feelingz are hurted and he haz the sadz?
We normals are expected to tolerate a crushing tax system even longer because one of the elite is pouty, and that’s perfectly okay. Because us normals are not the priority. The elite is.
It’s the ruling class’s country and we just live in it – at least until the elite can import an entirely new and docile electorate from the Third World to replace us.
You can tell a lot about a people by who they hate and who they idolize. They hate Donald Trump, and it’s because he has no allegiance to them and because he knows them so well from first-hand experience that he has absolutely no respect for them. All their hard-earned status within the hierarchy of the elite? He doesn’t give a flip, and the normals love it. Finally, someone is holding these pompous perfumed princes to account.
But who does the elite idolize? The aspiring elite, college students, seem to idolize Che and Bernie Sanders, as if we needed more evidence of their terribleness.
Our allegedly grown-up elite admired Ted Kennedy, the scummiest scion of America’s scummiest family – you should get a waterproof edition of Howie Carr’s astonishing Kennedy Babylon so you can save time by reading it in the shower. Camelot? More like Clap-a-lot. That bulbous scuzz didn’t just fix a waitress sandwich with Chris Dodd – who, of course, left the Senate to work as a lobbyist for…wait for it…Hollywood. No, he actually killed a woman on a drunken bender, skipping off to new sordid triumphs with barely a slap on the wrist.
And the bipartisan establishment hailed him as “The Lion of the Senate,” never mind the body count.
Don’t forget their other idol, the Stogie-Stasher-In-Chief, Bill Clinton. He was such an icon that the ruling class offered up his wife as its presidential candidate twice. Oh, and plenty of alleged Republicans were cool with that – class solidarity controls, after all.
But the ultimate documentation of the utter moral vacuum in which our elite dwells is noted Hillary donor Harvey Weinstein. Hollywood has, for decades, taken upon itself to chide and chastise us normals for our many, many, many faults, because when you want to learn the difference between right and wrong, you need a movie star to help you out. And, to the surprise of no one, it was all a crock.
They knew. They all knew, and they didn’t care. Meryl Streep’s Sophie’s choice was between her career and her conscience, and let’s just say she didn’t agonize over her pick. Others took his cash to shut up, leaving other ingenues to his sweaty clutches because getting the gigs trumps sisterly solidarity every time.
Hillary Clinton managed to put down her super-sized Chardonnay goblet long enough to issue a 38-word comment/cliché on her pal and benefactor’s icky adventures in gardening. In her defense, she was probably thinking, “I was married to Bill. This guy’s an amateur.”
So why should we normal Americans respect these people? Why should we submit to being constantly scolded, lectured, and treated as morally bankrupt simpletons anymore?
We shouldn’t, and we aren’t, not anymore.
They wonder why they got Trump.
They are why they got Trump.
I like Golden Corral but I acknowledge that it ain’t fine dinning and is best for kids, seniors and large hungry bus groups.
I like to know, wth are they doing in Congress if they need Alzheimer’s prescriptions, this and the fact that they get their drugs at almost no cost delivered to them is not just outrageous, it is clearly criminal.
later
I like Golden Corral too and if it were for fine dining it wouldn’t be self serving, plus the prices would be at least 3 times at much and the plates that they serve you would only one third full.
I agree with your comments about his sideswipe at GC. He should have left that out.
I’m willing to give him a pass on a mistake, so long as he admits it was a mistake. That is what sets us apart from the left. They just double down. Schlicter is one of my favorite writers, so I hope he backs off of this remark. He doesn’t have to stand in the corner and flog himself, just admit a small mistake, move forward, keep writing his great columns.
If you called me a bad name, I’d quickly forgive and forget. It would be especially easy to forgive and forget if I knew that you didn’t mean it. The reason it’s hard to forgive the left is because with them it’s always a slip that reveals their true nature and feelings.
Also, it’s entirely possible that KS really dislikes GC and has had bad food there. That is entirely different from elitism. We’re all entitled to our likes and dislikes which doesn’t necessarily make us elitists. I’m not too fond of several fast food places, yet have no problem shopping at Walmart. It’s a matter of what I like and don’t like and what I think is a good value, not a matter of elitism.
It's also engineering, physics, chemistry, accounting, supply-chain management, and so on.
>>I’m willing to give him a pass on a mistake, so long as he admits it was a mistake. That is what sets us apart from the left. They just double down. Schlicter is one of my favorite writers, so I hope he backs off of this remark. He doesn’t have to stand in the corner and flog himself, just admit a small mistake, move forward, keep writing his great columns.<<
I am cool with that — it makes sense. We can all get a little overamped when we snark :) It isn’t like it happens here on FR and certainly *I* have never been guilty of such!!! ;)
I love the folks bitching about his Golden Corral comment. His point is valid—college was supposed to be for cultivating the elite among our society, instead it’s been devolved into an overpriced, bland, anti-intellectual experience.
Golden Corral is fine for what it is, but it sure as hell ain’t “elite.”
It isn’t about Golden Corral!!! Geez, people.
bkmk
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