America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution (Long, but very worthy and important read)

The American Spectator ^ | July, 2010 | Angelo M. Codevilla

[GOP_Raider]

So should we simply ban television then? Maybe in 20 years from now the same things will be said of the internet—i.e.: roads that will lead to serfdom.

[muddler]

The revolution begins in earnest in November, what comes after is anybody’s guess.

[Upstate NY Guy]

Rush is really getting into this right now. He is tying it in with the Trent Lott disdain for the Tea Party movement. Rush rarely leads off the show with such a ringing endorsement.

Pinging entire article for later.

[Edgerunner]

spectator.org is off line Too much traffic?

[penelopesire]

Rush listeners have crashed the site...lol. It won’t even load right now. Will try again later. it sounds like a must read.

[Joe 6-pack]

Bumping for later read.

[penelopesire]

Here is another link to view the article:

http://www.mlteaparty.org/acodevilla.pdf

[bigjoesaddle]

I like the phrase Rush just said “no one gets out of High School”

[Lucky9teen]

Very apropos!

[pburgh01]

D.C really is becoming the new Rome circa 6th century. While the ruling class continued their feasts, games and debauchery under supposed Roman pontiffs and false Christianity, the empire was crumbling. Rome itself was outragously wealthy and prospering under a burgeoning bureaucracy and olicharchy. All the while the provinces were becoming unmanageable and the whole empire teetered on collapse as pointy hatted emperors, bishops and other Holy Roman whores continued to their welfare state fantasies and tyrannical control over the populace. What's old is new again.

[pallis]

Thanks for the link.

[norraad]

Ephesians 6:12

Perfectly condenses it.

So how do we insure the new guys voted in don't get "the meeting" in the room of those we don't vote for?

[Parley Baer]

Explains the likes of Newt and McCain. Also explains the shots taken at Sarah Palin. We can only vote them out of office. It also explains the uphill battle J.D. Hayworth has. The “party” has lined up against him as he is not part of the “ruling class”.

[PMAS]

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[mick]

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[CincyRichieRich]

The irony of the ‘ruling class’ is not that it’s made up of the wealthiest and most talented, but instead run by the dregs (entertainers) and run by the welfare class, the perversely develop idle class who live on the money of the taxpayers.

I don’t mind helping out the mentally ill and genuinely handicapped, but so many are having dozens of kids out of wedlock and the responsible are having less children because they have to work day in and day out.

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This ruling class involves Frank, Dodds and many other liars and cheats that should rot.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Great [loooong] article. America today is plain and simply Rome of the first few centuries A.D. Our fate will be the same. We no longer have the will or the ability to govern ourselves. So now we have rulers. The Barbarians are at the gates...ask Arizona. What we once were, we are no longer.

God help us...or at least those of us who still care.

[DoughtyOne]

If people could only understand the premise of this article, they would be begin too see why some of us have such hair triggers when it comes to people who profess to be Conservatives.

There’s a big game being played on us, and very few people have any idea what is taking place.

This is a keeper, because it pretty well lays reality out for those who need to know.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” There’s a big game being played on us, and very few people have any idea what is taking place. “

Very few people know because they don’t care enough to know. I learned nothing in particular from this article, but I hope many people read it.

[ichabod1]

Discrediting is not good enough. I want these people in jail, proscribed, deprived of liberty and property, with no judicial review via Article III Sec II. I want them UNDER the jail. They aren’t elites. They’re pigs.