4/17/08
Much
mumbling has sallied forth from the lips and pens of pundits and others in a
frantic effort to define elitism and justify the lofty notions of this honored
place on Olympus where the ignoranti maximus can be trained to do
simple tasks, such as voting for leftists.
The
usual definition of elitism reads like a cartoon of an urgent competition among
a thoroughbred horse in rivalry and a string of three-legged mules in a stakes
race. It is clear to all observers that the elites can provide the answers and
solutions to many, if not all in all possible cases, social problems. Let us
all be thankful there are so many among us to guide us through the swamps of
life and taxation.
Members
of this august group would have the following attributes: inherent outstanding
personal abilities such as oratory approaching the finest works of Cicero, a
soaring intellect with the implication that their IQ levels must be past 150,
usually great wealth as in the case of the Kennedy Klan, Kerrys, Rockefellers
and now the Clintons, a unique expertise in several fields of endeavor such as
law or logic or philosophy, or a combination of divers factors which would make
them natural sages or leaders or more.[1]
The antonymous elements of this
class include the populists, common folk, uneducated and vulgar, Republicans
and residents of Pennsylvania
The
Brits and their slower congeners in the colonies use the pejorative term Tall Poppy Syndrome, derived from
Aristotle [the king of sophistry][2]
where he and Livy give an account of how the Roman King Tarquin the Proud had Sextus cut off the heads of the higher class
citizens of Gabbi.[3]
This syndrome is in retaliation to snobbery and elitism and seeks to adjust the
intellectual imbalance inherent in society. A backlash against arrogance is a
common occurrence in politics.
We
are faced with a dilemma here. We, the politically and socially inept, need
expert leadership to decide how our tax monies will be properly spent and where
to live and talk and how to think. So
why is there such antagonism against the Tall
Poppies who guide us through the darkness? We cannot appreciate our
ignorance any more than book works eating through a calculus book could
appreciate the Limit Theorem.[4]
This
thesis now must be extended by asking the following question: Are those elites
who parade before the TV cameras really so elite? The definition of elite is
complicated.[5]
Part
of this dilemma can be solved by inspecting the themes and comments of the
elites running for President in the Party of Democrats. We can inquire as to
education and find two Ivy League graduates. That works. Next we can look at
their list of achievements and note that they are both successful politicians.
Check on that item. But, elites must have been educated and we can wonder who
influenced them and with what political theories.
As
for Hillary Clinton, she must have been strongly influenced by Eldie Acheson[6]
[7]
[8]and
Saul Alinsky as the record shows. Other students of Alinsky, a sworn Communist
include: Ed Chambers, Cesar Chavez, Tom Gaudette, Michael Gecan, Andrew Vachss,
Patrick Crowley[9],
Fred Ross and Barack Obama.[10]
[11] These people are [or were] all radical
activists who are anti-capitalist, anti corporation and favor command economies
as did Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
So,
subtracting out the contributions from their speech writers, especially in the Clinton
We
can find nothing novel about any of their political theatre or economic or
social positions from either Democrat. Senator Obama is rated 100% liberal so
we can wonder where the intellectual power went. They offer nothing outside of
the narrow left-liberal notions that have produced disastrous social and
economic programs like the Great Society, HUD, War on Poverty and a few world
wars. They cannot be considered elites if they do not understand that tax cuts
benefit all society in the creation jobs and growth. How can they talk about
restoring lost jobs in the auto industry when they want to tax corporations
until they flee the country? They want to punish business success with taxes?
Their legal training in the Rule of Law prompts them to summarily ignore gun
laws and allow illegal aliens to have driver’s licenses and live in sanctuaries
at taxpayer expense? Their moralities seem to be buttressed by a fondness for
homosexuality, kiddy porn, sloth, sodomy and the urgent need to legalize drugs
so their constituents can ‘feel good.’ One of them even used crack.
One
of this pair is a consummate liar whose lack of credibility [12]
[13]
is well known in the polls. She cannot
communicate without a premeditated script. The other candidate sat for 20 years
listening to the low-class ethnic rants [14]
of a unhinged racist and abject loser who howls for revenge and hates his own
country as he builds a new 10,000 square foot mansion in an all white
neighborhood. Obama stripped of his pin stripe suits and ignoring his slick rhetoric
is a common closet racist who must tantalize his half-brothers to political
action. Both of these two candidates practice ideological racism [15]
for political advantage.
All
this evidence leads us to conclude that the candidates have only the sophistry
of identity politics and are steering their constituents toward the polls with
ordinary political tactics. These people are not elites—they are slow-witted
mechanical chum chuckers who will not deviate from sausage-machine political
slogans in fear of alienating their base. Their views are exceedingly narrow
and shallow.
These
two frauds are not elitists nor can they be associated with Tall Poppies. These two are just crude
political operatives devoid of morality or even class and will say or do
anything to make more money for themselves from their book sales.
Let
him them rave on so men will know them mad—[a paraphrase of Ramses II][16]
“"Out of their own mouths they are
condemned," and they are so base they do not even know that they are
publishing their own shame."[17]
Georgia
Yes
they do. Shame has nothing to do with politics when they win.
There are no poppies in this group—only weeds.
rycK
Comments:
ryckki@gmail.com
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitism
[2] "Periander advised Thrasybulus by cutting the
tops of the tallest ears of corn, meaning that he must always put out of the
way the citizens who overtop the rest."
Pol Pot used this advice to the extreme in Cambodia
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
[4]
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/calculus.html
[5]
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300065343
[6] Granddaughter of Dean Acheson.
[7] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1122858/posts
[8] http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0225-06.htm
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Crowley
[10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky#Students_of_Alinsky
[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Crowley
[12] http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=3110
[13] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-collis/the-clinton-credibility-g_b_93270.html
[14] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTGRL0OJWQ
[15]
http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/voices/200412/1202edit0.html
[16] http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0006186/quotes
[17] Source: Eliza Frances Andrews, The
War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (New York: D.
Appleton and Co., 1908), pp. 370-373.
http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-aug/aug18.htm
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