So called "Elites" aren't very elite

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ARE DEMOCRATS REALLY THIS DUMB?

Well, there was the Democrat Congresscritter who thought that too much weight on one side of Guam would tip it over.

The only thing that makes them "elite" is that somebody in authority says that they are. It isn't based upon merit, but who you are ( some "oppressed class member"), or who you know.

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12/14/23: Update to yesterday's post:

Academia is at the root of the Elite tree. Chop it down. The tree is rotten and infested with anti-American bias. The Dems are exploiting it in order to usher in a new type of government than the one that was intended by the Founders. The "Elites" mouth the traditions of America, but they speak insincerely. They do not honor America, nor its Founding documents. They are simply using these as cover for a type of soft coup.

The following link expounds a bit more about this rotten root of a rotten and dying tree. "DEI" should be renamed "DIE", for that is what they want for America.

The rot in academia is very deep-rooted

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America’s Elites Are Not Fit for Purpose

This is a great read. Perhaps we will awake from the "woke" nightmare, and the system can be reformed.

Highlights: 1)"told me that when he read in the Harvard student newspaper that more than three-quarters of the university’s student population was taking anti-depressants,"

2) "What the world saw in that Congressional testimony was that these academic leaders live in the same country as their fellow Americans, but in different worlds."

3) "DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) programs, both within universities and corporations. The name is perfectly Orwellian, for these programs are about the opposite of what they claim to support;"

4) "That imposition includes silencing dissenters"

5) "When you elevate leaders based not on actual accomplishment,"

6)"DEI is a political religion for these fanatics;"



Perhaps it is time to give them their hill (DEI) to die on. For if anything needed to die, it is this destruction of merit, and basic justice. An elitism that isn't cannot rule. As the article makes clear, the elites are unfit to rule.

With Trump leading Biden in the latest @WSJ poll as the Ivies reel from the inept performance of their deeply mediocre leaders, this is less the Rise of Trump than the moral and intellectual collapse of the American Establishment. Sad. Tragic, really. Scary. But real.

— Walter Russell Mead (@wrmead) December 9, 2023