Learning from Angelo Codevilla

American Thinker.com ^ | September 28, 2021 | Christopher Chantrill

[Kaslin]

On learning of the death of Angelo Codevilla last week I went and reread his prophetic America’s Ruling Class from 2010. I’d say it holds up pretty well.

My only problem is the division of America into two classes, the one-third as Ruling Class and its supporters, and the other two-thirds as Country Class Americans. It’s only when you dive down into the article that he mentions the “ruling class and its underclass clients.”

See, I think the simplest understanding of human society requires three layers or classes: Nobles, Yeomen, and Serfs; Educated, Deplorables, and Victims; my own Creatives, Responsibles, and Subordinates; or Curtis Yarvin’s Gentry, Commoners, and Clients.

You can’t understand “systemic racism,” for instance, without a three-layer theory that experiences today’s educated ruling class as Allies by virtue of their virtue-signaling insistence that their Oppressed People supporters are all helpless victims of eeevil White Oppressors.

Speaking of White Oppressors, NHJ, did you know that America was founded when the Brits dumped a shipload of White Trash in Virginia in 1584 -- way, way before 1619? “Waste Population,” they called them.

My rereading of America’s Ruling Class helped me better understand the big question of why corporate America is all-in on Black Lives Matter. It came to me where Codevilla explains the point of those multi-thousand-page reconciliation bills. If you are a corporation or a professional association you’d better be on-board with the rulers’ agenda, or you won’t get your carve-out in the 3,000-page Build Back Better bill: “nice little business you got here…”

Codevilla’s piece also explained to me why all the various professional associations are forcing their members to spout this week’s party line on COVID or lose their accreditation.

[Track9]

RIP Angelo Codevilla.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Good citizenship strives to recognize and honor a balance between corporate and individual behavior, all while undertaking the pursuit of helpful knowledge and wisdom. Today’s mass media is, for the most part, an enemy of all of the above.

[Macoozie]

“his prophetic America’s Ruling Class from 2010”

put that up there with the Great Works of Western Thought.

[DiogenesLamp]

My rereading of America’s Ruling Class helped me better understand the big question of why corporate America is all-in on Black Lives Matter. It came to me where Codevilla explains the point of those multi-thousand-page reconciliation bills. If you are a corporation or a professional association you’d better be on-board with the rulers’ agenda, or you won’t get your carve-out in the 3,000-page Build Back Better bill: “nice little business you got here…”

This was the motivation behind 1860 Washington DC. The ruling class was the beneficiary of the money created from Washington DC policy.