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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
You understand a day or so ago Adder posted this exact thing?
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There was a time this country had actual elites. Smart people who passed things like
Roe, which was legally imperfect, but took an unresolvable issue away from state and local politicians who are simply too stupid and petty to have sway over such things.
These were true elites. And these elites died off or gave up years ago.
In their place we now have False Elites. Credentialied screwballs who talk to themselves, tell each other how smart they are, embrace radical chic nonsense and elevate minor issues like trans stuff to the level of major national concerns.
I know them. If you're a professional or upper middle class or above, how can you not know them? They're the wingnuts who'll talk about pronouns, stake out an almost religiously unrealistic argument about climate, pervert good ideas like justice reform into bizarre "anti-racist" screeds, obsess over JK Rowling's alleged "sins," and insist they're both the most enlightened of any group that's existed.
They are not serious people. And, appropriately, they've got deeply unserious people countering them: MAGA.
The difference is, the Unserious Left had some power. Because govt is filled with people who do not wish to actually have to work hard for a living, make a payroll, or be subjected to metrics, and those who've studied frivolous things in college which private sector employers do not value, these people flooded govt, and thinktanks, and changed their branding from that of "Silly Liberal Arts Major" to "Policy Wonk" or "Technocrat."
And then they started telling everyone what to do. And they royally fucked it up, alienating and annoying everyone around them. Instead of critically examining whether they were incompetent, however, they instead became siloed, talking to each other in their little enclaves, and telling themselves that nothing was their fault. Everything was the fault of "others."
Well, MAGA appeared in 2016 and shocked them. Inflection point? Nope. They doubled down. "Everyone who doesn't agree with me is racist! Is dumb! Is sexist! It's the Russians!"
2024 rolled around and this wasn't enough. Now it's "Facist! Nazi!"
This worked out brilliantly for them.
What we have right now is two groups of know-it-alls, MAGA/Whatever the GOP Has Become and "Academe Faux Intellectuals"/Whatever the Democratic Party Has Become, fighting each other.
We in the middle have been telling both sides that down this road lies ruin. Compromise is essential. But the parties have abrogated their duty to control the crazies in their tents. The media have embraced division because it makes them money. And academia have lost their minds, embracing extremist left-wing fringe positions on everything.
To anyone asserting that this was all racism, or sexism, and that it's the country's fault, or Russia's fault, or disinformation's fault, please look in the mirror:
It is indeed, in part, those things. But more than all of them combined, It's You. You think you know a lot. And you don't. Your radical chic views have never held purchase beyond college campuses. And your strategy of shaming and guilting anyone who doesn't agree with you is a pitch any competent salesperson will tell you is assured to fail.
Feel superior to these know-nothings of MAGA. It's fun, I understand. I do it myself. But those of us in the middle are also laughing at you. Because you're the other side of this tango of idiot tribes. Without you, there is no MAGA.
