David Brooks: Tea Party people are stupid, but they are having an impact
(Photoshop via Doug Ross)
New York Times columnist David Brooks will never let an opportunity pass to remind you that he is an intellectual and you are a grimy member of the unwashed masses. His column today pays a back-handed tribute to the success of the Tea Party movement…while bemoaning the decline of influence among the “educated class” (e.g., David Brooks and Friends).
A taste of the bitter whine in the Fishwrap of Record:
The educated class believes in global warming, so public skepticism about global warming is on the rise. The educated class supports abortion rights, so public opinion is shifting against them. The educated class supports gun control, so opposition to gun control is mounting.
The story is the same in foreign affairs. The educated class is internationalist, so isolationist sentiment is now at an all-time high, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The educated class believes in multilateral action, so the number of Americans who believe we should “go our own way” has risen sharply.
A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.
…The Obama administration is premised on the conviction that pragmatic federal leaders with professional expertise should have the power to implement programs to solve the country’s problems. Many Americans do not have faith in that sort of centralized expertise or in the political class generally.
And David Brooks has the audacity to paint Tea Party activists as the immature, mentally-challenged ones? Instead of acknowledging, for example, that man-made global theories are in peril because the data manipulation, suppression, and intimidation tactics of conniving, eco-radical academics have been exposed, Brooks paints public skepticism on the issue as a reactionary tantrum.
I remind you of Brooks’ fatally impaired powers of discernment regarding Obama’s “pragmatic federal leaders with professional expertise.” While he derides Tea Party participants as “teens,” he has slavered over Barack Obama like a lovesick tween from day one.
Remember this?
Jan. 20, 2009, will be a historic day. Barack Obama (Columbia, Harvard Law) will take the oath of office as his wife, Michelle (Princeton, Harvard Law), looks on proudly. Nearby, his foreign policy advisers will stand beaming, including perhaps Hillary Clinton (Wellesley, Yale Law), Jim Steinberg (Harvard, Yale Law) and Susan Rice (Stanford, Oxford D. Phil.).
The domestic policy team will be there, too, including Jason Furman (Harvard, Harvard Ph.D.), Austan Goolsbee (Yale, M.I.T. Ph.D.), Blair Levin (Yale, Yale Law), Peter Orszag (Princeton, London School of Economics Ph.D.) and, of course, the White House Counsel Greg Craig (Harvard, Yale Law)…
… Already the culture of the Obama administration is coming into focus. Its members are twice as smart as the poor reporters who have to cover them, three times if you include the columnists. They typically served in the Clinton administration and then, like Cincinnatus, retreated to the comforts of private life — that is, if Cincinnatus had worked at Goldman Sachs, Williams & Connolly or the Brookings Institution. So many of them send their kids to Georgetown Day School, the posh leftish private school in D.C. that they’ll be able to hold White House staff meetings in the carpool line.
And yet as much as I want to resent these overeducated Achievatrons (not to mention the incursion of a French-style government dominated by highly trained Enarchs), I find myself tremendously impressed by the Obama transition.
– Smarty pants/panting smarty David Brooks, NYT, 11/21/08
And this? From “The Story Behind the Brooks-Obama Bromance”…
That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks’s mind. “I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama’s The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was “Run, Barack, Run.”
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He recognizes something similar in the current president. “Obama sees himself as a Burkean,” Brooks says. “He sees his view of the world as a view that understands complexity and the organic nature of change.” Moreover, after the Bush years, Brooks seems relieved to have an intellectual in the White House again. “I divide people into people who talk like us and who don’t talk like us,” he explains. “Of recent presidents, Clinton could sort of talk like us, but Obama is definitely–you could see him as a New Republic writer. He can do the jurisprudence, he can do the political philosophy, and he can do the politics. I think he’s more talented than anyone in my lifetime. I mean, he is pretty dazzling when he walks into a room. So, that’s why it’s important he doesn’t fuck this up.”
It’s David Brooks who needs to grow up. His Ivy League idol is an incompetent phony fermenting in a culture of corruption. You don’t need a PhD to see it.
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Flashback: Iowahawk’s classic satire of Brooks…T Coddington Van Voorhees VII.
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For a non-bitter, informed, and in-depth account of the Tea Party’s rise, check out John O’Hara’s new book: A New American Tea Party: The Counterrevolution Against Bailouts, Handouts, Reckless Spending, and More Taxes.
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Hey David, eat my shorts! Low brow enough for ya?
David Brooks is so terminally ignorant that I find it embarrassing that we are members of the same species.
Mr. Brooks… get over yourself and your “smartness”.
And let me clue you in to a little tidbit……… you really are not very smart. Educated.. probably. But smart? Absolutely not.
As Yoda would say:
I’m confused, Barack Obama and David Brooks, which one is Bella and the other one Edward?
David who?
David Brooks, meet Calvin Coolidge.
Hmmm. Let’s see. Bill Gates – no college degree, Steve Jobs – no college degree, Larry Ellison (Oracle) – no college degree.
Since none of these folks have Ivy League degrees to brag about, does David Brooks think they’re stupid?
Amazing how he’s so hung up on elitism and status. Someone needs to ask the real question. Just how DID the Obama’s get into those institutions? Can we see their SAT scores? Their high school and college transcripts?
Of course not. Because we all know they got into those schools solely based on affirmative action and not merit.
Has anyone read Michelle Obama’s “thesis” paper? It’s written at the 4th grade level English. If that’s what you want to call it.
I guess “the educated class” is a code phrase for “socialists” and “weenies”…
And given the state of education nowadays “the educated class” doesn’t carry much weight. Remember that being educated, and being intelligent, is not necessarily correlated with being wise. We have some of the most educated fools on the planet to prove that. They’ve swallowed Gullible Warming whole, they think that we can spend our way out of debt and into prosperity, and they think that freedom is free, we just need to be nice to the bad guys and listen to their concerns.
Who reads David Brooks? Who does he speak to? For? And more importantly, Who cares what Brooks thinks or says?
Keep sipping that Sherry, David. Don’t forget to swirl around a little bit in front of your friends while y’all discuss the latest Vanity Fair issue.
Good one, Rogue!!
I haven’t heard/used that since pick-up basketball games in med school/postgrad training!
LOL!!
Thank you!
Brooks, Noonan, Parker and Frum, all nominal conservatives, cannot believe that we hoi polloi do not think our betters are more capable of running our lives than we are. Take a look at the deficit. The “educated class” couldn’t run a three car parade.
As I’ve said several times over the past year or two, I am not in the least impressed with the Ivy League…and no one else needs to be, either.
Brooks’ article also says this:
“They (the tea party folks) believe big government, big business, big media and the affluent professionals are merging to form self-serving oligarchy — with bloated government, unsustainable deficits, high taxes and intrusive regulation.”
Uh, let me say, as a member of his so-called “educated class”. . .anyone who hasn’t yet recognized that this trend has been true for some time now, is living in denial. Our government has become characterized by elected representatives who are (with few exceptions) more interested in holding onto their own power, and that of their party, than in the well-being of our nation and their constituents.
I may not be a fan of some of the fringe elements of the tea party movement, but if the movement as a whole can shake up this status-quo, it will be a positive thing.
Yes! I still got it baby! (whatever it is)
Fishy, fishy David Brooks;
Thinks all wisdom is from Liberal Books;
Not Ivy League? He’s not a fan;
He’d soil his pants if he met a real man.
Rogue-Bart Simpson would be proud of you and your pithy response to an “ivy league” weenie.
GSP
Yes, indeed!
We also trash-talked “Eat my jock*****!”
(Oops – apologies. We are, after all, in mixed company here….)
Most people have thumbed their nose at his opinions. So he is hitting back……so what…he’ll disappear eventually when Americans take back the country.
Who’s David Brooks and who cares?
Nice one Dexter.
the pic above says it all…he’s a sorry excuse for a commentator….stuff a sock in it Dave…
There’s a difference between being educated and being smart. There is a lot of “educated” people out there without any common sense or smarts at all. Brooks included.
Let’s look at the “educated fools” who put Obama into the White House. How about the lady who just wanted some “Obama money”. She didn’t know where it came from…. but she wanted some. And the lady with the car repossession problem that would be solved when Obama was elected. Let’s get their opinions on global warming and multilateral action. Give me a break. I dare Brooks to give an exam on current events to liberals and tea partiers and report the results in the fish wrap of record.
When he says educated class, what he means is Ivy League graduates, of which he is one. There are plenty of well educated people in the Tea Party/Conservative movement, and even those that aren’t are very well informed, more-so than the David Brooks of the world. But the “educated class” is unable to recognize that knowledge acquired outside of their little bubble world could be of any value. What is interesting is that there is at least a recognition of the strength of the Tea Party, and maybe even a little fear. This is a very good sign that the “educated classes” are starting to hear us. Probably too late to save their jobs but maybe they can start planning their escape to save their heads.
Ever see Jay Leno on the street with the public. Every time they show their ignorance, I think that person, if they voted , probably voted for Obama.
Ben Affleck (Chuckie): … so this is a Harvard bar, huh? … I thought there would be equations on the wall …
From Good Will Hunting
“Educated Class?” How is that defined?
I’m pretty sure I have a few diplomas – do I qualify? What about Mark Levin, JD – does he qualify? I’m pretty sure our hostess, Michelle, is a college graduate. Antonin Scalia is a Justice, as are several other conservatives in the court. I think he went a step or two beyond 6th grade…
What kind of a fool refers to an “educated class?”
As an educated American with a BS from one of the country’s top universities in my field of study and three (going on four) technology certifications, I would suggest that those referred to in this piece as the “educated class” are just simply wrong.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
My favorite quote from Thomas Sowell:
… like these clowns ru(i)nning the country!
Hey, I’m part of the “educated class”. Does he mean the “liberal educated class” that works for the NYT and/or beltway? Reminds me of an old joke about Henry Kissinger.
Kissinger, Nixon, the pope and a hippy are flying over the ocean when suddenly the pilot emerges from the cockpit announcing “The engines have conked out and we are going to crash. Unfortunately, there are only four parachutes and as the pilot, I’m taking one.” He puts on a chute, opens the door and jumps.
Nixon then declares: As President of the United States, I’m the most important man in the world and I have a responsibility to survive.”, grabs a chute and jumps.
Then Kissinger declares: “As the smartest man in the world, it would make no sense for me to die needlessly.”, grabs a chute and jumps.
Then the pope turns to the hippy and tells him “I’m a very old man. You are still young and have a long future ahead of you. Take the last chute, my son, and save yourself.”
The hippy turns to the pope: “It’s cool man. The smartest man in the world just jumped out with my backpack. Grab the other chute and let’s go!”
~ My boy’s wicked smart.~ Morgan
Is there a way to just drum him out of the conservative ranks? What a buffoon? If he is an example of a conservative, he is proving that we are all idiots.
It’s amazing how these intellectuals love Mao. Mao exterminated intellectuals during the ‘Cultural Revolution’.
Hmmmmmm!!!! He may believe he’s an ‘intellectual’ but he ain’t smart.
Surely, the liberal “elites” are laughing at him. And stop calling me Shirley!
People like Brooks bring to mind a pharase uttered by Captain Jack Sparrow:
Even the look on his face gives evidence of the odor emanating from his very soul.
There is a HUGE difference between being educated and being intelligent. With liberal professors, being educated just means telling them how smart they are. Questioning, analyzing, understanding does get you A’s or jobs as journalist etc.
Ever notice how these so-called intellectuals won’t ever debate?
Classic!!
Hadn’t heard that one for a long time.
Thanks!!
Also funny how the conservatives are selling the books. Conservative tea partiers know how to read. They should show us the health care bill so at least someone can read it.
~ There has to be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tie is.~ John Nash
The “educated class”?! I don’t believe in any of those things he attributes to the “educated class”. In fact, I’m firmly with the grimy, unwashed non-elites. And yet I’d be willing to bet that my academic credentials (BSEE, MAPH, Ph.D.) make me more highly educated than David Brooks ever will be. What a twit.
~ I don’t have time for these classes and these books, memorizing the weak assumptions of lesser mortals.~ John Nash
~ In medicine or economics, in technology or in space, battle lines are being drawn. To triumph we need results – publishable, applicable results. Now, who among you will be the next Morse, the next Einstein? Who among you will be the vanguard of democracy, freedom and discovery? Today we bequeath America’s future into your able hands. Welcome to Princeton, gentlemen.~
Well, everyone over at the National Review On-line and by extension National Review itself (with the notable exception of Mark Steyn). You remember the National Review I’m sure, the voice of establishment conservatism? A.k.a. the effete corps of impudent snobs (H/T to Spiro Agnew)? Our intellectual masters who did nothing but write an occasional lame editorial as the country was being pushed over the cliff? These people would embarrass Michael Steele.
. . . of the “National Topsider”? No, Iowahawk’s two pieces are a satire of Chrisopher “Christo” Buckley. While both Buckley and Brooks sip from the same luke-warm tea pot, “Christo” is the true patron saint of the pseudo-cons, the type that gets the vapors if one even whispers the name of Sarah Palin.
phil…great story and very on point. those who stay in academia, like this whole administration, may be the world’s book smartest people, but as we witness daily, they can’t cross the street without assistance. academia is a cocoon mr brooks, which keeps these self absorbed lazy (_*_)s protected from harsh reality, like getting fired for incompetence or actually having to produce something that those unwashed masses will purchase. instead they spend their lives begging taxpayer money from the unwashed to pay a staff of alien post-docs to teach their classes and do their research and make their poster presentations. these “worker bees” get paid slave wages, which is why they are predominantly aliens from states not friendly to the u.s. but which are accustomed to slave wages.
mr brooks, give me people who have actually done something other than beg (academia and community organizers) or criticised (media and reporters) for my leaders. these folks understand why you can’t spend your way out of a recession caused by overspending. this obviously was missed in the courses by all those phd and legal geniouses of this admin, and since someone always paid their credit card bills, it’s no wonder they never learn the lesson of fiscal management.
The above article is proof positive that a degree from a highly selective school does not make one wise.
Michelle, let me remind you that in addition to a fish wrap, the NYT makes an excellent bird cage liner. In fact, a bird can do his business on its pages without changing the content thereon. Case in point – this (and almost every) Brooks piece, which we all know is nothing but a pile of s… well, you know.
If WE’RE uneducated goons, then what does he call his president, who makes a fool of himself nearly every time he opens his mouth? What does he call a large portion of the people who voted for this clown, who have no idea how an economy grows, where jobs come from, and what our government was constitutionally formed to do?
Once again, a liberal pea-brain projects his own pathetic intellectual shortcomings upon others in order to attempt to hide these failings.
Brooks talks like we’re all just a bunch of contrarians who jump knee-jerk-like whenever the “educated class” (or rather the “indoctrinated class”) arrive at a conclusion–usually a conclusion that means destroying our constitution and giving all political power to THEM. I love it when idiots like this debate with their own conceptions of their adversaries, ignoring all of the facts behind why we ARE their adversaries.
I wouldn’t be surprised if any one of us could utterly destroy this intellectual pygmy in a debate about science, the role of government, and the American’s rights according to the US Constitution.
ROTFL
Just think about this sentence.
You are educated. The subject relates to a physical science. There have been centuries of of effort in human thought evolving to the point where we created the Scientific Method to test hypotheses and prove things within the dicipline of the Physical Sciences.
So with all of this process available the “educated class” uses “belief” as its basis to support Global Warming.
Education certainly does not translate into knowledge and wisdom.
From the GOPUSA Eagle newsletter, Bobby Eberle posts an article entitled “NPR SHOWS EVERYBODY HOW TO SPEAK TEA BAG . . . WITH OUR MONEY“. From his article:
Here’s the site where you can see and hear the animation entitled “Learn to Speak Tea Bag: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047
Again from Eberle:
So far there’s 610 comments to the animation posted by Mark Fiore and 172 “recommended”. Funny how there’s no choice for a “down vote”. That’s 28 percent that approve of this shameful posting at NPR of this sexual reference term that offends the majority of people. Do you think they might consider the opinions of the 72 percent that don’t approve? I’m sure not.
Wow! This self-important gasbag can’t even form a decent sentence!
Give me Sarah Palin, any day…!!!
I wonder if he includes himself…yes, he MUST be talking solely about himself, and is projecting his own inadequacies upon everyone else. I’d love for Brooks to sit down and TRY to talk with real intelligent columnists like Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams (who have more intelligence than every member of Obama’s cabinet combined).
David Brooks is NOT a Conservative. A mangina, to be sure, but not a Conservative.
As in Toys for Tots?
Bakugan 7 in 1 Maxus Dragonoid?
A question a Snarly Conservative asked a Snotty David Brooksesq Liberal:
“Are there more PhDs in the NBA or NASCAR?” Snotty David Brooksesq Liberal got all upset.
Hey Snotty David Brooksesq Liberal: The Snarly Conservative was bluffing
Barrrrrak Hussein Obama: Takes a poodle-licking and keeps on ticking!
Harsh RogerCfromSD , harsh. May I use it?
A heads-up, guys.
By your posts, you may provoke yet another lame installment of ridicule from a troll; who will snicker, and claim you are trying to say something like, “Oh yeah? Well, mine’s bigger than yours!”
Brooks should certainly understand the term . . . he is the epitome of “stupid”.
“Consent of the governed” does not exclude Ivy League educated Lords anymore than it excludes trailer trash.
Hey, Rags!
Long time no read!
Good to see you, and welcome back.
Right. And conservatives don’t write any good books either, do we?
It’s so cold here, this morning I saw a democrat with his hands in his own pockets!
David Brooks is a scam artist just like his celebrity deity, the Messiah Obama. Michelle reads Mr Brooks’ dribble so we are not burdened with mental torture. It’s important to know what the enemy is thinking and propagating to the lemmings of the NY Times. But thankfully most of us do not encourage advertisers of the fishwrap of record by never purchasing a subscription.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong.
What a pompous ass!
I hesitate to say the following, and do so only to prove a point about what Brooks wrote, not to edify myself.
I am a member of what David Brooks would call “the educated class” (two “elite” university degrees, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), and David Brooks does not speak for me!
I know Anthropogenic Global Warming is a scam.
I, like the founders of this country, believe it is self-evident that Life itself is an unalienable Right, endowed by our Creator, and that our Government was instituted to secure our unalienable Rights, including the unalienable Right to Life. If our Government continues to be destructive of the unalienable Right to Life, especially in the form of universally funded abortion, then it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
I support the 2nd Amendment and know that frequently, the only thing that stops a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun. Think of Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, or any other “shooter” incident… what stopped the shooter? The shooter only stopped when someone else with a gun showed up.
I believe in U.S. sovereignty, and I firmly oppose the “internationalists”.
Here, Brooks actually gets close to the truth. The Obama administration is premised on the mistaken belief that the “elites” know how to run your life better than you do. The Obama administration is premised on Communistic Central Planning.
Common sense Americans do not have faith in that because they have eyes to see the track record of Communist countries. Marx and Engel wrote their manifesto over 150 years ago. It is a failed ideology, and only idiots like David Brooks think it is a good idea.
The 20-year-old guy within me is straining to make an earthy comment; but, I will resist….
Goes without saying. (sniff)
ArizonaNeanderthal, by all means.
Brooks has accused “teabaggers” of being the uneducated class. A reponse declaring the opposite is appropriate. I have an MPA with honors from CU and I paid for it myself, so stuff your embarassment for others, granite.
ITTRP, see the heads-up above (#57).
And just exactly which problems have these geniuses solved? (cue the crickets)
Gee what a whiney guy he is. Does he realize that articles like that will not help his cause at all?
Educated class…LOL they are soooo educated that they are blinded by thinking they are soooo smart. Global warming – it has been proven that the data was manipulated to justify their actions and the Average Joe knows this and is pissed off. Abortion rights – the educated are so smart they believe it is ok to kill an innocent child but it is a horrible injustice to kill a convicted killer. The Average Joe understands how twisted this is. Gun Control – the educated class believes that if we just outlaw guns that gun crime will cease to exist. The Average Joe understands that if a criminal is going to commit a criminal act (bank robbery) then the criminal has already shown they have no respect for the law.
Looks to me like the Average Joe is the truly smart; whereas, the educated class just thinks they are.
Whoa!
Hold it.
We’re on the same side.
You read my post way, way wrong.
I’m not embarrassed in the least for others.
Having, on a past thread that dealt with the cloying oohing and aahing of Ivy Leaguers by clowns such as Brooks, been the target of snide remarks from trolls; for having posted extremely similar comments to those of Rightwingrocker, Phileosophos, ITTRP, and similar to your post – at least the first part; I’m simply saying that you/we should not be surprised if a troll directs snide remarks at you, and at RWR, Phileosophos, and ITTRP.
And, I paid for a significant chunk of med school myself….
To repeat, we are on the same side.
1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion Alan Kulwicki, driver of the Alan Kulwicki Racing #7 Hooters Restaurants Ford Underbird, had a degree in mechanical engineering.
David: We are decidedly less stupid than you and also more concerned about our country as evidenced by our willingness to take action.
Anyone who is obsessed with the One’s pants crease should be ignored.
I used to run a systems development department for a small, successful, and profitable telco.
The other managers hired the latest, single, ivy leaguers. I hired everyone they wouldn’t look at: state school grads, night school grads, started in community college, working their way through, had to stop and start to save money to pay for school, had families etc.,
Smart, hard working and hungry. Suffice it to say, we were the best development group in the company. I mean we kicked their azz. On time, under budget… you name it. We got the best bonuses, and were hated by the hard partying Ivy’s.
And guess who had the most diverse group ?
We were eventually taken over a big telco. We kept doing a great job, until the big telco didn’t like us showing up their entrenched top college developers… so we were minimized until we all left.
We sold all our stock options at a high, then shorted the company making a bundle. The company tanked, and no longer exists in its past form.
It has been my observation, having lived in a liberal college town, that the “educated class” doesn’t have the common sense God gave a grape. They can’t drive a car much less figure out why it won’t go when it breaks down. Most don’t have a clue as to how to change a flat tire. And I’m supposed to trust every part of my life to these waterheads?
Go back to Canada, Brooks. Shania Twain can stay.
Great story.
There’s a type of justice in the end result.
Thank you.
Yet more proof that the so-called intellectuals are book-smart and life-stupid at the same time. Thanks for the update, MM.
He sounds like a fourth grader complaining about one of his classmates. Stupid? He’s a tool.
Mr. Brooks,
As one in your so called ‘educated class’ I am here to tell you that there are many like me that disagree with you on many of your presumptions about the political leanings on the issues you mention [in the included article above].
Since you are getting all snooty and such, and are pulling the ‘elitist card’, I thought I would remind you that I sit on top of you in the ‘educated class’ structure. I have two degrees in the sciences – not just a single social sciences degree. Accordingly, my opinion counts more than yours.
My opinion is that you should feel free to shut your piehole at the first possible convenient moment.
Regards,
-PhredE
Anti-Elitist,
Lifetime Member ‘Educated Class’
A twit, indeed.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Noted, Thirteen.
Still, “fish wrap of record” still packs a sweeter punch than “bird cage liner of record” (IMHAO).
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Anyone who has been to my blog knows I’m more than competent in my ability to body-slam anyone in debate, especially some loser who comes at me with bullcrap like that.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Whoa.
I’ve heard Democrats in Alaska don’t even do THAT!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Welcome to the Federalist Party!
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Brooks and others like him spend most of their time being impressed with themselves. They spend the rest of their time stuck in their brains. Who died and made them God? What makes them think they are the be all and end all? Soon they will feel the power of the tea party members. These same clowns took an affirmative action couple and put them in the White House. The rest of us made our way using our own creativity and didn’t rely upon the artificially created level playing field. Note to all elites: Life is not fair. It will never BE fair and YOU can’t make it fair no matter how much money is spent in trying!
Well said!
granite –
Thanks! Just thought I should re-state the obvious (in case in wasn’t covered enough already…sigh).
G’Day
Many of the presumed intellectual elite have very little actual higher education. There are actors and actresses that exclaim the virtues of the left who have little more than a high school public education. There are lots of professors who never held a job in the real world and whose dissertations are garbage because it was politically correct to make sure that women and minorities got the doctorate regardless of competence. The lefts favorite politicians are basically ambulance chasing lawyers or worse. Guys like Brooks went to a journalism school and that qualifies them to trash the middle class who believe in the American constitution. He has a forum to print excrement – that is all.
A good mugging, with the criminal slapping him around some as he steals his wallet, and maybe points a gun at him and puts him in fear of his life, would probably do him some good.
Not sure a limousine liberal (or limousine squish who calls himself a conservative) would ever actually be exposed to street criminals.
Thank you for sharing that!
I think you are not alone. I think that for decades upon decades, the “elites” have attempting to take control of every part of our society, and hinder the advance of anyone who does not fit their Socialist “the debate is over” mold. In academia, if you question evolution or AGW, you are shunned. In corporate America, the “elites” are promoted while “non-elites” are minimalized. The college admissions boards have tremendous power. They are the “gatekeepers” who decide who gets to be part of the “elite”. It’s not just academic performance. I highly suspect that applicants who reveal a conservative mindset are discriminated against.
I happened to have come from a blue state Democrat family, and didn’t become a conservative until after leaving the “elite” environment.
OK, sorry. And nothing the trolls do surprises me, except maybe back when chap equated Harry Hay with Jefferson. That one still…
It’s been like that for decades. The pragmatic professionals have taken the freest, most prosperous country in all of human history to tyranny and bankruptcy.
It time for people that haven’t had all the common sense educated out of them to have a turn.
No apology necessary.
We all have to hang together, and keep on keeping on.
What?!
You mean stop pouring gasoline onto the fires?!
What kind of idea is that?!
… when I took the red pill …
On January 5th, 2010 at 12:38 pm, granite said:
From a knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing guy with a 140 IQ in flyoverland….Eat my shorts!
Since the “intellectuals” have all the right opinions, perhaps we should start testing people before they can cast a vote. How will that work for you and your “educated class”?
Not quite. Obama and friends believe academics have superior knowledge of right and wrong, good and bad, over people who have worked in the private sector.
Government and academic experience is the Gold Standard, as it were, for Obama’s elitist communists.