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| The Middle Class Strikes Back |
| 2017-01-05 |
| by Victor Davis Hanson [NationalReview] One reason for the emergence of outsider Donald Trump is the old outrage that elites seldom experience the consequences of their own ideologically driven agendas. Hypocrisy, when coupled with sanctimoniousness, grates people like few other human transgressions: Barack Obama opposing charter schools for the inner city as he puts his own children in Washington’s toniest prep schools, or Bay Area greens suing to stop contracted irrigation water from Sierra reservoirs, even as they count on the Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy project to deliver crystal-clear mountain water to their San Francisco taps. The American progressive elite relies on its influence, education, money, and cultural privilege to exempt itself from the bad schools, unassimilated immigrant communities, dangerous neighborhoods, crime waves, and general impoverishment that are so often the logical consequences of its own policies -- consequences for others, that is. Abstract idealism on behalf of the distant is a powerful psychological narcotic that allows caring progressives to dull the guilt they feel about their own privilege and riches. Much more at the link. A very good read. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #13 Two more books by Democrats nobody will read; their publishing house is going to take a huge bath on this. Yet Simon and Schuster gets threats and vitriol for greenlighting and paying a $250K advance to Milo Yiannopolis (A hilarious militant conservative gay) which is already on Amazon's bestseller list for pre-orders. Nice business model ya got there Obama-sucking Press |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-01-05 21:01 |
| #12 The Daily Mail claims Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama each have $20 million contracts for their memoirs. Two more books by Democrats nobody will read; their publishing house is going to take a huge bath on this. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-01-05 19:59 |
| #11 how about Obama's two snowflakes taking their winter vacations skiing in Sun Valley The Daily Mail claims Mr. and Mrs. Barack Obama each have $20 million contracts for their memoirs. If so, they can rent their own palatial there -- ownership has too many responsibilities. Besides, I suspect that scion of the Kennedy clan will be completely booked with neglected relations for a while, and sadly unable to host the Obamas on their desired dates. for which he'll be excessively sorry. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-05 15:32 |
| #10 Unfortunately, many of us in the land between the coasts end up paying a large chunk of the bill for the transgressions of progressives in the coastal areas. Our tax monies get collected by the feds and redistributed to these lefty areas. California was at one time truly the "Golden" state prior to 50-60 years ago when a larger part of the State was conservative and not so looney. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-01-05 15:25 |
| #9 how about Obama's two snowflakes taking their winter vacations skiing in Sun Valley 2 or 3 times a season, lift tickets are only $140.00 per day plus Uncle John "I was in Vietnam you know" has his palatial home there with his lovely wife Teresa |
| Posted by: 746 2017-01-05 14:06 |
| #8 Clinging to his guns, his Bible and his family farm. OK. I get it. Still have to wonder if it gets to the point where a reasonable person decides it's no longer worth it. The taxes really are horrendous. There has been some discussion lately about California seceding or being given back to Mexico. One idea I like a lot better is to divide California into several smaller states. VDH would no longer be subject to the whims of the coastal elite. California's electoral college votes would no longer all go automatically to the Democrat candidate. Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris would no longer represent me in the Senate. And if the folks in the Bay Area wanna bestow such generous benefits on illegal aliens they could do so without taxing from their more sensible neighbors. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-01-05 13:46 |
| #7 Can't imagine why VDH stays there. Fresno? Ick. Because he own land there that was in his family since 1860es. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-01-05 12:00 |
| #6 Can't imagine why VDH stays there. Fresno? Ick. Those of us on the coast who bought our houses many, many years ago are lucky. Many of us could not even dream of it today. I know people who bought more recently whose monthly property tax bill is more than my monthly mortgage payments. Dunno how they do it. That's Proposition 13 for you. The politicians, including Moonbeam, all opposed it back in 1978. Now they keep trying to repeal it. If they ever do I'll have to leave. Maybe they'd like that. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-01-05 11:50 |
| #5 Perhaps someday VDH will direct his venom towards the California Public Utilities Commission. It's the vehicle for much of the corruption that fuels his rancor. CPUC is a prime example of how Progessivism is antithetical to individual liberties and and how it has always depended on statist cronyism to exist. Moreover, the commissions' record lays bare the Liberal "Social Justice" falicies. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2017-01-05 11:38 |
| #4 3dc, if you use Firefox, you can use the 'NoScript' addon to prevent javascript from running the reloading script. Also in Firefox, in the far ri8ght side of the address bar, there is a square icon with a dip in the bottom of it, click on it and Firefox will turn the page into a "reader view" page, that will remain static and give you forever and a couple days to read the article. It's what I use and I had no problem reading the article. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-01-05 11:20 |
| #3 Barack Obama opposing charter schools for the inner city as he puts his own children in Washington’s toniest prep schools. Yes, the Sidwell Friends School. The hypocricy of Obama discussed on this blog many years ago. Unfortunately the discussion fell to the wayside as more onerous and damning transgressions soon took it's place. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-05 05:39 |
| #2 Hanson is a really smart guy. However, Notional Review, Weakly Stabber and Dead State must be ground into dust if a worthwhile conservative renaissance is to occur. No more puffed up intellectual pooftery. More red meat. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-01-05 03:55 |
| #1 Can't read it. The website keeps replacing the article with some bs and I can't read it fast enough to figure out how to read the article. Likely only works with M$S Edge. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-01-05 02:39 |