The
Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and What We Can do About It. Says
Codevilla, in a pluperfect description of Kerry and all those foreign leaders
who agree with him that the GOP presidential primary is “an embarrassment”:
Today’s Ruling Class, from
Boston to San Diego, was formed
by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them
remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount
to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular
sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints.
Using the right words and
avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters — speaking the “in”
language — serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or
profession they are in, their road up included government channels and
government money, because as government has grown, the boundary between it and
the rest of American life has become indistinct.…
[The Ruling Class] has
defined itself by the
presumption of intellectual superiority…. This presumption is key to
understanding our bipartisan Ruling Class. Its first tenet is that its members
are the best and brightest, while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist,
and dysfunctional unless properly constrained.
Full text at: http://spectator.org/articles/65909/john-kerry-gop-elites-and-embarrassing-ruling-class
