I am finding that the American Elite Class seems to be following some very bad advice or needs new writers.
After losing the executive, their reaction has been to throw a tantrum, support riots in the streets, wear funny hats, call everyone a racist in the opening, middle and closing of every paragraph, destroy the NFL, attack the police, offer cowardice in the face of people trying to kill us, refuse to pass legislation and more general negative activity.
They then top it off with an exposure of just how sleazy and slimy most of their political and celebrity icons are, how casually they use the sons and daughters of America as sexual playthings.
They have made normals question the value of higher education for the exorbitant cost, question the possibility of ever achieving racial harmony, and have planted the idea in the heads of normal people that the elites despise them in every way and on every day.
Our elites seem to be lacking in skills, capability and any sense of class.
My advice for them. Help Trump deliver. You will not like what comes next if he fails.
I think Saul Alinsky wrote the script. Happily, we will now scratch the third act and rewrite it our way, and punt supporting actors like Keith Olbermann out the back stage door. Break a leg, Keith.
I highly approve of your use of the word normals. Kurt Schlichter has used it also to great effect.
These barfbags want to burn it all down? I just refreshed my 40Cal S&W supply.
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I agree that it appears that both the Leftist elites and the “movement conservative” “thought leaders” have overplayed their hands.
I hope they have. What we need to be doing is pointing out repeatedly how wrong they are about America, how wrong they are about American values, how wrong they have been about everything, and rallying the low-information voters to the support of President Trump.
The American Elite Class will be the architect of its own destruction.
I can only shake my head. I keep thinking these people can’t get any worse- but they keep surpassing my awful expectations.
One Bill Clinton was bad enough. Now it appears there are scores just like him, all covered up by the so-called press. Meanwhile, after having accepted this without complaint for decades, the usual suspects of the gop are promising to fight Roy Moore tooth-and-nail should he win election.
I’m no longer surprised by this, but I’m certainly amazed. What would turn up if we actually had a press that was interested in investigating these people instead of covering up for them? Why is the gop so supine and worthless? Blackmail? Senility? Betrayal?
All of the above? And worse?
Regardless, I certainly believe the elite hate me and want me to starve- and I’ve learned to hate them right back.
God damn them. They live large in a country created by the hard work and sacrifice of people not only still living but long dead, and they’ve been throwing away what made the United States wealthy and prosperous with both hands, for their own gain, since before I was born.
This won’t end well- but it will end, one way or another.
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The Christian talk radio ladies had a good discussion where they played a tape from ABC with Cokie Roberts saying that “every woman in the press corps” knew not to get on an elevator if they would be alone with John Conyers. The Christian talk ladies were trashing Cokie Roberts and the women of the press corps for giving Conyers and other Democrats a pass, not treating it as a story, while simultaneously pouring all sorts of bile on guys like Robert Packwood, a GOP Senator who was run out of office for pinching a few fannies.
>>My advice for them. Help Trump deliver. You will not like what comes next if he fails.
They should, if they knew what was good for them. But they can’t help themselves, full of hate and contempt for the normals as they are. No, the only hope for any of us is if Trump succeeds in spite of them.
It’s not a given that peace and prosperity will continue. In 1910 no one foresaw the horrors that were to come. Nor is it a given that the US will continue as the dominant force on the world stage. If the US falters, it could be very dark days ahead for everyone.
The only ray of hope in this dismal portrait is that no one has ever won betting against the US so far. Unlikely as it seems, Trump may be the Lincoln of our day. Wouldn’t that be a kick in the head for the Nevers and the Left!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb4P-MZMzJs
Doc, your take is spot on. My understanding is Lincoln was treated much like Trump by the elites of his day.
If Trump is defeated and driven from office, expect the precedent of sanctuary cities to unfold as the red states do a slow motion secession.
May not be slow motion. The rate of decay is not nearly linear, but not quite exponential, yet. And that’s an emphatic yet.
Just to clarify, I don’t mean to imply that Trump is as virtuous, as good a writer, as articulate, or as smart* as Lincoln. The comparison is to the right leader at a historical inflection point. As TKC noted, Lincoln was also vilified in his day. He was also greatly underestimated.
Consider how these quotes about Lincoln might fit in today:
“I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln. With all his deficiencies, it must be admitted that he has grown continually.”
“We have never for a moment doubted that Mr. Lincoln, in whom there never was an impulse of unlawful ambition, a shadow of dishonesty, a wish that was not for the welfare of his country … is, his errors and faults all included, the wisest, the safest, the most unselfish — the man most fitted for the time in which he lives, and for the desperate dangers against which he contends.”
Of course, these quotes are all posthumous.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln#Quotes_about_Lincoln
*This one may even be true.
Correction: the second quote above was not posthumous; it was published in 1863 in the Chicago Tribune. Note that the Trib was an abolitionist paper at the time. Even they considered that Lincoln had “unlawful ambition” and “a shadow of dishonesty.”
“Nor is it a given that the US will continue as the dominant force on the world stage.”
It certainly will not, for a swarm of reasons. I’ll list some.
1) The American people have plainly tired of dying so the elites can do nice things for foreigners. For example, Barry’s red line did not result in an invasion of Syria, courtesy of immediate and intense public opposition.
2) We have tired of being impoverished because the elites feel bad that foreigners are poor. I note that the endless hysterical shilling in favor of “free trade” failed to save the TPP, or stop Trump from winning the GOP nomination and the presidency.
3) We have tired of being replaced by foreigners in our own country because they are cheaper, or will vote as elites desire, or whatever. I note the endless, relentless, and nasty campaigns in favor of amnesty and open borders haven’t succeeded of late.
4) The industrial might that made the rest of the world quake has been outsourced and offshored and allowed to die. None of the people who matter want to work in a grubby factory, so the elites don’t notice or care.
5) Our elites are fools, and everyone knows it. No one fears the wrath of the United States, nor should they. The government of Afghanistan attacked us, despite the US being their largest source of foreign aid, despite our assistance against the Soviet Invasion, despite our supposed superpower status. The result wasn’t their destruction. The result was a multi-trillion dollar foreign aid expedition, including the invasion of Iraq, and with insane rules of engagement that get our soldiers killed for no sane reason.
This isn’t any sort of scenario that leads to global domination. Key policy tools that allowed US government to win friends and influence foreign governments have faded away.
To be blunt, the present United States government is a feeble and feckless regime whose last days are even now being written, to borrow from someone who likely wouldn’t agree with my comment.
It remains to be seen if Donald Trump, attacked at every turn by our failing regime, can turn it around, as Lincoln did long ago.
One should be wary of calling the elites fools. Note that internally the elites pretty much do the right things. They marry, are productive, seek work, stay out of jail, go to church, and for the most part don’t do illegal things (always remembering that they are basically fascists so believe government should control business and decide who wins and who loses – because they are so smart).
The problem with the elites is that they are both arrogant, thinking they should dictate how others live, and lack confidence in themselves, in that they consistently fail to promulgate their own mores to the general public and act as examples. This leads to the incredibly disconnecting recent letter in support of Sen Franken – because he represents their political line – implying there is NO ONE who could replace him and still have their political “ideals”. Just that is terribly sad.
“The problem with the elites is that they are both arrogant, thinking they should dictate how others live, and lack confidence in themselves…”
I think you are far too charitable towards them. I think it no accident that under their regime the government has enabled, subsidized, or enforced a wide array of terrible incentives and awful policies that have the effect of wrecking the lives of the elites potential competitors.
But I don’t condemn them as fools because they don’t get up for work in the morning, or divorce their wives, although some do. I call them fools for the same reason the Athenians were fools to attempt to conquer Syracuse, or how the French aristocracy was prior to the Revolution.
That is, they’ve made terrible choices that have put the future of the country in doubt.
And, mostly, they don’t even seem to notice. Inexcusable.