They know. We know they know. They know we know that they know.
The only question is when it all blows up.
“Daniel Markovits summarized years of research in his book “The Meritocracy Trap”: “Today, middle-class children lose out to the rich children at school, and middle-class adults lose out to elite graduates at work. Meritocracy blocks the middle class from opportunity. Then it blames those who lose a competition for income and status that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win.””
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“But there’s a larger context here. As the sociologist E. Digby Baltzell wrote decades ago, “History is a graveyard of classes which have preferred caste privileges to leadership.” That is the destiny our class is now flirting with. We can condemn the Trumpian populists all day until the cows come home, but the real question is when will we stop behaving in ways that make Trumpism inevitable.”
The comment section for this article is to be expected from the pious liberal readers of NYT. (Myself excluded) The usual litany of accusations against anyone not in lockstep with Prog-Lib ideology range from “Redneck MAGA, Bigots, Racists, Stupid,” et all. It is scary how they view their ‘fellow’ Americans who happen to be Conservative. The crucial difference between the way the Left and Right view each other – and this is not hyperbole – is that the Right wishes to be left alone, while the Left wishes us all dead. They will not leave us alone, and it’s time… Read more »
The way that all this plays out isn’t completely clear to me. But if our side ever gets the upper hand I’d really hate to be them. They’ve made themselves so despicable that the retribution would be murderous.