A question that gets asked a lot is whether the elites who run this country really believe in all their woke pieties or are they just using them as a blunt object to pummel the dirt people that they despise so much.\u00a0 My belief is that in a sense they do believe the things they talk about.\u00a0 But not in the way that someone would believe in things like gravity or fire.\u00a0 The things that they espouse, that are crazy, they believe in the way that kids believe in Santa Claus.\u00a0 They want to believe in it because it makes them feel good.<\/p>\n
And part of the reason it makes them feel good is because it makes them feel better than the bad people who don\u2019t believe in these things.\u00a0 So, these beliefs, such as America is rife with systemic racism, serve as the basis for membership in the elite hierarchy but at the same time don\u2019t require that these beliefs be tested because membership in the elite insulates the elect from exposure to the real world where reality shows its ugly face.<\/p>\n
So, if you\u2019re one of the cloud people you can drive your electric car three miles back and forth from Harvard Yard to your home in Cambridge and the reality of what green energy is doing to the American energy system won\u2019t cause you a moment\u2019s discomfort.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re a family trying to make it on two minimum wage salaries and gasoline has doubled in price over the last four years there\u2019s a lot of pain.\u00a0 Or if you\u2019re an old money legacy candidate at an Ivy League school then the minority affirmative action candidates won\u2019t affect you.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re a poor white kid with 1600 SAT scores it will.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re part of the elite the rules are different.\u00a0 And you have to know that, but you don\u2019t admit it, even to yourself.\u00a0 From where you stand, you\u2019re one of the good guys and you deserve to have the game played by your rules.\u00a0 And in a sense, this may have always been the case.\u00a0 After all, aren\u2019t these the same people who have been calling the shots since Plymouth Rock?\u00a0 Whether they were justifying the dispossession of the local Indian tribes or enforcing the blue laws against the Irish riff-raff or finding a pretext for the Spanish American War haven\u2019t the elites always justified their preferences as being moral and on the side of the angels or more recently \u201con the right side of history?\u201d\u00a0 Somehow the consequences of whatever crusade they decide to declare are always paid for by less important people; the riff-raff or foreigners who need the work.<\/p>\n
People think that because the elites are advocating mass immigration from the third world that they are trying to eliminate their own European legacy.\u00a0 But I think they have that wrong.\u00a0 The elites believe and probably rightly that they will still be in charge and they will be immune to the chaos that this importation will wreak on the rest of the country.\u00a0 And maybe they\u2019re right.\u00a0 Maybe Cambridge and Martha\u2019s Vineyard and the other homes of the elite will roll right along basically unchanged.<\/p>\n
But maybe they\u2019re wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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