This Month's American Spectator contains an article by Prof. Angelo Codevilla on the divide between politicians, bureaucrats, the policy establishment and ordinary citizens.
You may not believe it but Prof Codevilla says these folks largely represent an isolated group which disdains the rest of the country. There's no diversity and no sympathy for outsiders.
They apparently have the same education, the same values, the same social canon. For them, evil consists in the sins committed against minorities and the environment, and good is represented by social diversity, political correctness and reverence for the government as God.
Unusual contempt is reserved for those who view America as substantially different from the rest of the world, and like it that way.
The purpose of this Ruling Class, apparently, is to deliberately spend the U.S. into insolvency. This will provide them with aggregate power as more and more folks must depend upon the government. As they do they will likely accept government norms of social and political behavior....increasing the governing class's hold on power.
Is this scary, or what? But you probably already knew all this. If you did not, you certainly felt it. The downward trajectory of this nation, over the last 100 years, or so, has been inexplicable. There is no other rational explanation for the destructive decisions of so many.
Prof. Codevilla reports a conversation between former Soviet ruler, Mikhail Gorbachev and former Vice President George H.W. Bush, regarding then-president Ronald Reagan.
Vice President Bush is quoted as saying: "Reagan is a conservative, an extreme conservative. All the dummies and blockheads are with him."
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