http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-theQuite a few snippets I could post from there but it's worth a read. I really don't have a good place to start the discussion as there is a good bit of meat to it.
7/20/2010 5:05:58 PM
7/20/2010 5:17:08 PM
It is a bit wordy and almost stream of consciousness-like in its presentation.Ultimately, this is a conservative rag, it makes the point that the ruling class are more often than not intellectual progressives. He informs you of that later so I suppose it's mildly confusing on the first page.He answered your diversity question right after the statement. [Edited on July 20, 2010 at 5:22 PM. Reason : .]
7/20/2010 5:21:05 PM
So I saw.
7/20/2010 5:33:46 PM
7/20/2010 7:43:55 PM
7/20/2010 7:58:21 PM
Sorry, I meant to put intellectual in quotes. He writes at length about progressives feeling intellectually superior and this gives them their ammo for deciding what is right/wrong for everyone else.^ Agreed. Supplanter, you didn't even comprehend correctly what you quoted, which was
7/20/2010 8:44:39 PM
I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.
7/20/2010 10:23:15 PM
We do not live in a monarchy or a caste system. In the United States of America, it is entirely possible--with hard work and good judgment--for those in lower classes to move up. Many do this every day and tens of thousands wouldn't be risking their lives to come here every year if it weren't the case. So, I don't accept the premise implied or outright stated in the OP article. And I can't stand the typical class warfare agitprop and the thinly veiled threat of the "No justice, no peace" types. Furthermore, the "ruling class" are always portrayed as stereotypical Monopoly Man types--just as the cartoon in the linked article depicts: While the class referred to in the linked article and the following class may not be entirely mutually exclusive, we don't hear a lot about these elites and how their sociopolitical attitudes and life stations affect policy: Poll: D.C. elites a world apartJuly 19, 2010
7/21/2010 5:45:40 AM
Huh? Those are precisely the elites he is referring to. The ones that think the country is on the right track because they think they have an intellectual monopoly on the proper prescription for how to run things versus the rest of the country who pretty much assumes they are getting it wrong.
7/21/2010 6:49:37 AM
The cartoon above and this quotation. . .
7/21/2010 7:03:10 AM
The elites are more in favor of the free market; this is a good thing: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=another_culture_war_no_thanks
7/21/2010 7:22:48 AM
I'm not sure you read anything form either link.
7/21/2010 8:52:35 PM
What I just said came from the link I posted
7/21/2010 9:45:02 PM
Then you read nothing from my link.
7/21/2010 10:06:46 PM
I read from your linkand I wanted to add one of my own, from a libertarian no less
7/21/2010 10:30:57 PM