On Our Elites And Their Disdain

It is true that elites throughout history have often looked down on the commoners.

After all, Marie Antoinette most eloquently and rather tone-deafly said "Let them eat brioche" while the commoners were starving (Note she did not say let them eat cake, but brioche, which was the most expensive bread at the time).

Our elites are a rather less couth, so that the real pain and problems of supply shortages to the commoner is dismissed as the tragedy of treadmills that do not arrive, but the disdain towards the commoners now referred to by the elites as "cousin-humping rednecks in flyover country" is very much the same.

But our elites disdain not just those below them on the SES scale, but our country itself and its institutions, the country and institutions they themselves rule and for which much of the problems they claim exist point straight back to themselves and their ideological elite predecessors policies and actions.

This kind of disdain of the rulers for the very nation itself that they rule is rather unprecedented, as are our ruler's policies past and present that have got us here and which are ongoing, if not accelerating in their disdain and direct damage to the country.

The article Unprecedented by Michael Anton explores this phenomenon in impressive detail and really smart analysis that is more than well worth your time to read. So yes, go read it.