Posted on 04/21/2015 6:18:01 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Ever since David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party, Leftist commentators have complained about his sense of entitlement.
If you're not British, you might not catch the class-war connotations with which that word is freighted. The Prime Minister is an Old Etonian, and he looks and sounds it. Of course, many of his socialist critics went to private schools themselves, but they generally pretend to have been miserable there. Tony Blair, who attended the most famous boarding school in Scotland, went so far as to invent a story about having tried to run away to the Caribbean.
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We may have the monarchy, but you have the hereditary ruling class. “Here’s a clue. On the day she announced her candidacy, I had a look at Hillary Clinton’s Twitter page. What, I wondered, might it tell me about her likely priorities in government? She followed nine other accounts: Clinton Global Initiative, Clinton Foundation, Clinton School, Clinton Library, Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Women in Public Service, Too Small to Fail and Beyond Differences. (To be fair, five more accounts have since been added: @HillaryforSC, @HillaryforNV, @HillaryforNH, @HillaryforIA and @HillaryforNY.) And why not? When you’ve been in and around government at the highest level for long enough, you’re bound to start taking it for granted. You forget that you are passing through institutions that are greater than you are. It becomes all about you. This was precisely the phenomenon that the United States was created to forestall.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
That system, as Jefferson kept telling anyone who'd listen, depended on constantly changing the people at the top. If certain families got it into their heads that the republic was their plaything, America would descend into oligarchy as surely as if it had a hereditary nobility.
Bush, Clinton etc.
Bush, Clinton, Kennedy, Jackson, Rockefeller, Cuomo, Paul...
Notice the pattern?
Leftists or moderates.
We can break it easily by not voting for the hereditary class. But that takes educating the idiot voters.
If I remember correctly, up thru about 1900 or at least the latter part of the 19th century the House had a majority of freshmen for every new Congress. (Outside the South, which tended to return Reps over and over.)
Today there’s, what, 95% re-election rate?
As you say, we could pitch every one of them out at the next election if we chose to. Which means as a people we’re getting exactly the government we deserve.
The Managerial State:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state
Paul Gottfried, in After Liberalism, defines this worldview as a "series of social programs informed by a vague egalitarian spirit, and it maintains its power by pointing its finger accusingly at antiliberals." He calls it a new theocratic religion. In this view, when the managerial regime cannot get democratic support for its policies, it resorts to sanctimony and social engineering, via programs, court decisions and regulations...
And the primary tool of the Managerial State - anarcho-tyranny:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Francis#Anarcho-tyranny
Sam Francis wrote: What we have in this country today, then, is both anarchy (the failure of the state to enforce the laws) and, at the same time, tyranny – the enforcement of laws by the state for oppressive purposes; the criminalization of the law-abiding and innocent through exorbitant taxation, bureaucratic regulation, the invasion of privacy, and the engineering of social institutions, such as the family and local schools; the imposition of thought control through "sensitivity training" and multiculturalist curricula, "hate crime" laws, gun-control laws that punish or disarm otherwise law-abiding citizens but have no impact on violent criminals who get guns illegally, and a vast labyrinth of other measures. In a word, anarcho-tyranny.
And he also wrote: The laws that are enforced are either those that extend or entrench the power of the state and its allies and internal elites ... or else they are the laws that directly punish those recalcitrant and "pathological" elements in society who insist on behaving according to traditional norms – people who do not like to pay taxes, wear seat belts, or deliver their children to the mind-bending therapists who run the public schools; or the people who own and keep firearms, display or even wear the Confederate flag, put up Christmas trees, spank their children, and quote the Constitution or the Bible – not to mention dissident political figures who actually run for office and try to do something about mass immigration by Third World populations.
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That's why us Bitter Clingers can't understand why they won't prosecute Lois Lerner, Charlie Rangel, Jon Corzine, Hillary Clinton, John Kosikinen or Bill Clinton for the open and notorious felonies that they have demonstrably committed.
They're all Managers.
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