Every society has an aristocracy, even the Soviets did as does the Chinese Communist Party.
The problem w our aristocracy is that not only have they renounced noblesse oblige, they have obvious blatant contempt for their countries, their people, their culture etc, and prefer other international elites to their own citizens.
Prior aristocrats like Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller etc were embedded in their locales and built schools, libraries, parks, etc for their neighbors, but ours only look at their countrymen as cows to be milked or sheep to be herded (and cannon fodder, if nec.)
We need a new aristocracy of patriots, everywhere in the West.
You hit the nail on the head. The same can be said of almost all the "leaders" of EU states. Their loyalty is not to the countries over which they rule but the global elite to which they belong.
astute point - when the european aristocracy took that view (cannon fodder) into the 20th century they destroyed themselves and the world they knew. Our aristocracy is doing the same thing.
oh yeah, people keep talking about Weimar but our historical analogy seems to be more like 1914.
when politicians and journalists exist inside their own closed epistemic feedback loop and refuse to face (or even acknowledge) any consequences or dissenting opinions, it's only a matter of time before they lead us all off a cliff.
but I'm not sure that world war is up ahead, i'd vote for economic crash first.
Just a wild guess, but could it be that they are corrupt?, that they use their elected positions to enrich themselves? And maybe the voters that continue to re-elect them are not paying attention? And that the news media are not reporting on corruption because their jobs depend on not reporting in it?
People have been propagandized into having the same faith in "Democracy" and our "public servants" that a child has in Santa Claus.
Pulling on the string that reveals our Potemkin democracy to be a blatant klepotcracy would not only cause social strife, but be too psychologically destabilizing for the average American.
Thus turning a blind eye and/or brushing whatever peeks out back under the rug helps to keep the system functioning and people from having to think too much about what lies beneath.
Humankind cannot bear too much reality! (myself included)
thank you!
and a real press that reports on official corruption?
why and how are the Pelosis, Clintons, Schumers etc centimillionaires!?
For real - America wasn’t supposed to have an aristocracy.
Every society has an aristocracy, even the Soviets did as does the Chinese Communist Party.
The problem w our aristocracy is that not only have they renounced noblesse oblige, they have obvious blatant contempt for their countries, their people, their culture etc, and prefer other international elites to their own citizens.
Prior aristocrats like Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller etc were embedded in their locales and built schools, libraries, parks, etc for their neighbors, but ours only look at their countrymen as cows to be milked or sheep to be herded (and cannon fodder, if nec.)
We need a new aristocracy of patriots, everywhere in the West.
You hit the nail on the head. The same can be said of almost all the "leaders" of EU states. Their loyalty is not to the countries over which they rule but the global elite to which they belong.
astute point - when the european aristocracy took that view (cannon fodder) into the 20th century they destroyed themselves and the world they knew. Our aristocracy is doing the same thing.
oh yeah, people keep talking about Weimar but our historical analogy seems to be more like 1914.
when politicians and journalists exist inside their own closed epistemic feedback loop and refuse to face (or even acknowledge) any consequences or dissenting opinions, it's only a matter of time before they lead us all off a cliff.
but I'm not sure that world war is up ahead, i'd vote for economic crash first.
History is waking up!
I was thinking about that last night.
Dunno ukraine seems like a slow motion sarajevo to me.
also war is usually a distraction from an economic crash.
one will follow the other, it's just a matter of which comes first
And cannon fodder is ALWAYS necessary!
Bastille Day is creeping up on us.
you mean "Let them eat cake" day
Then what was the Gilded Age about?
Just a wild guess, but could it be that they are corrupt?, that they use their elected positions to enrich themselves? And maybe the voters that continue to re-elect them are not paying attention? And that the news media are not reporting on corruption because their jobs depend on not reporting in it?
People have been propagandized into having the same faith in "Democracy" and our "public servants" that a child has in Santa Claus.
Pulling on the string that reveals our Potemkin democracy to be a blatant klepotcracy would not only cause social strife, but be too psychologically destabilizing for the average American.
Thus turning a blind eye and/or brushing whatever peeks out back under the rug helps to keep the system functioning and people from having to think too much about what lies beneath.
Humankind cannot bear too much reality! (myself included)