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2017-08-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

The media's fatal flaw? It's elitism, argues a conservative professor

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-08 08:42|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 No, it's nepotism! They're simply not very elite!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-08-08 09:06|| 2017-08-08 09:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Many of the reasons, voters voted for Trump. For me, the disenchantment of many Trump voters had to do with:
1. The elitism cited and their smarmy and smug attitudes towards the rest of us.
2. The destruction of culture by the left.
3. The destruction of religion by the left.
4. The rampant corruption that has been created by mostly by the Clinton and Obama administrations but not exclusive to these admins.
5. Attempts by the left to corrupt the votes of the American people--outright attempts at stealing elections through immigration and cheating schemes.
6. Creating phony charities to bilk the American public under the guise of doing good things to create slush funds for the political elites.
7. The last administration's weaponizing of the government against the American people.
8. Allowing unrestricted illegal immigration for the purposes of cheap labor and new votes.
9. The destruction of the DOJ and the FBI by Obama, the Clintons, and Holder, and Lynch.
10. The pitting of Americans against Americans by the left.
11. The people elected Trump because they thought he might have a chance of doing something about the mire in D.C.
12. Destruction of the middle class--lay it off on globalists if you want.
13. People just got tired of being forced to eat a load of crap from D.C.
14. Voters being sick and tired of the crap the main stream media dishes up ad nauseum--they are worst than Pravda or Hitler's Goebbels.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-08 09:09|| 2017-08-08 09:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Welcome to the world of the New Class, BP.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-08 09:11|| 2017-08-08 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Funny. The entire point of the country was equality and freedom. Not imposed equality, not rationed freedom. There should be no "elites," but try to tell the self anointed that.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-08-08 09:13|| 2017-08-08 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 I call them the American Nobility. They don't have to follow 'common laws' the rest of us do. They want it so that only they can have firearms. etc...

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-08-08 10:19|| 2017-08-08 10:19|| Front Page Top

#6 If it were up to me, I'd drop nukes on, then abolish, the Ivy League.

Posted by Raj 2017-08-08 10:38|| 2017-08-08 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 It's the leftism enforced by elitism that's the problem.

Posted by charger 2017-08-08 11:28|| 2017-08-08 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 You can call it elitism, or you can call it arrogance combined with greed, these are ancient human failings.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-08-08 12:01|| 2017-08-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Trump is actually easy to explain in retrospect. Washington was picking winners and losers. The losers got fed up.

The media's role is actually two-fold. First, there is a revolving door between the Democratic party and the MSM. Second, everyone who isn't in on the racket has a potential path via the media. Join up, do your time, carry the Democrats' water and you may get your turn at the public trough.

Posted by Iblis 2017-08-08 15:44|| 2017-08-08 15:44|| Front Page Top

#10 First, there is a revolving door between the Democratic party and the MSM. Second, everyone who isn't in on the racket has a potential path via the media. Join up, do your time, carry the Democrats' water and you may get your turn at the public trough.

It runs through both parties, and not just the media. Academia, professional organizations/unions, think-tanks, defense contractors, other corporations who either do business with the government or are affected by government regulation, et cetera.

Posted by Pappy 2017-08-08 17:13|| 2017-08-08 17:13|| Front Page Top

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