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Excellent article by Victor Davis Hanson. Coastal elites


Posted: Jan 14, 2017

and tolerate rampant lawlessness from illegal aliens. 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....... The rich on the coast tune out. From her nest in Rancho Mirage, a desert oasis created by costly water transfers, outgoing senator Barbara Boxer rails about water transfers. When Jerry Brown leaves his governorship, he will not live in Bakersfield but probably in hip Grass Valley. High crime, the flight of small businesses, and water shortages cannot bound the fences of Nancy Pelosi’s Palladian villa or the security barriers and walls of Mark Zuckerberg and other Silicon Valley billionaires — who press for more regulation, and for more compassion for the oppressed, but always from a distance and always from the medieval assumption that their money and privilege exempt them from the consequences of their idealism. There is no such thing as an open border for a neighbor of Mr. Zuckerberg or of Ms. Pelosi. A final window into the California pathology: Most of the most strident Californians who decry Trump’s various proposed walls insist on them for their own residences. ;

I love VDH. He knows how to apply dystopian realities to real life and what - elitism actually is. He has spent

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long hours and seasons toiling in the earth, countless hours on a tractor, fighting to make a homestead farm profitable in the face of mounting odds generated by the liberalism. He is also a military historian well versed in Latin and Greek.

Today being "elite" means being PC and going to the "right" - schools. It has nothing to with

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intelligence. Most of the Obama administration have never worked a day in the private sector; it's all theory.

Outstanding post! - Thank you for this!!

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If this sinks in to just a few of the meatheads out there, it will have accomplished something.

And where is Donald Trump living? - Indivisible

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The south side of Chicago? He is the biggest elitist of them all. Sure, he knew what to say to get himself elected but why his followers believe him is a complete mystery. He has no history of doing anything for the little guy. Rather he has taken advantage of people and situations throughout his life. He has filled his cabinet with billionaires. Do you think they are going to help the little guy or enrich themselves even more? Paul Ryan has already said there will be no deportation squad. Mexico will not pay for a wall. What other campaign promises do you think will not be kept? If Trump were truly interested in the little guy he would divest himself of his holdings and concentrate on being president.

He hasn't been sworn in yet. - Let's not pass judgment too soon.

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He has done much for the little guy.

I could dispute your other judgments too, but I'm not about to dicker around with anyone.

What has The Grump EVER done for the little guy? - Except take advantage of him?

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Good for you! - Don't feed the trolls.

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