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The Chattering Class
The chattering class has found a home on Twitter. Twitter does perform a public service, although an unintended service that displays the ignorance of the elites. Elites on both the Left, and Moderates that expose themselves as ignorant, and disdainful of anyone that lives outside the bright lights of Washington DC, or any other large city.
From the Bulwark to the Lincoln Project, as well as the DNC, they have tiny little minds, they live in tiny little states, and drive tiny little cars with tiny little horns that go peep, peep, peep! Apologies to Randy Newman.
They have no real-life experience and live in concrete-and-glass canyons that limit their horizons and stunts their vision. Oh, they might go to the beach, or even attend a conference in Aspen, but that just reinforces their tiny beliefs. They went to the right schools and dutifully memorized the socially accepted platitudes. The most dangerous thing they do is open a bottle of champagne or do a little cocaine.
Their stupidity was on full display when tweeting about coyotes. None of them would last very long in the Sonoran Desert. Not all predators in the Sonoran Desert walk on four legs, crawl, or slither. The most dangerous predators walk on two legs in the Sonoran Desert. Coyotes traffic in drugs, and human beings.
The Sonoran Desert does not care if you went to the right school, know all the right people, and are invited to the right parties. The Sonoran Desert does not care what you think you might know about the border. Ignorance is bliss for the elites but it is not a virtue.
Take some time to watch this video. It will be far more educational than “Meet The Press.”
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Published in Culture
Being a wolf looks like one hard job.
Watching things like this remind me of how safe and secure my life really is…and I am grateful for those who chose to put their lives in danger to make this country better.
Doug,
I haven’t had a chance to watch the video but I will do it. However, I just wanted to tell you to hang onto your introductory paragraphs. You nailed them. No matter how facile and talented they are, they are so divorced from ordinary life and live in their bubble of right-thinking that they don’t have a clue. Some of them are cynical enough not to care but many are just that unconscious of their lack of grounding in reality. You hit on something. The Twitter thing is symptomatic of this whole syndrome. Their egos are so big they are sure that their instantaneous opinions on subjects are sage. Trump is just using Twitter to counter-punch a corrupt & lazy media. These people identify with the corrupt & lazy media. Pathetic.
Hold onto the ideas in these paragraphs they are relevant to many other subjects too.
Regards,
Jim
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https://spectator.org/americas-ruling-class/
by Angelo Codevilla in July 2010
It’s a long read but worth it
This was written in 2010, a very prescient article by Angelo Codevilla
One more excerpt from article cited above:
Looks like the entire area is without the famous fence. Where is it? Will this area get one? Does it matter?
I love that the Wolves consistently call the smugglers, “the bad guys.” Simple language plainly spoken is so very clarifying.
The reason to build the wall? “The bad guys.”
I spent a year at Ft. Huachuca and travelled a lot on the Arizona-Sonora desert. That would be a hell of hike. Tough ground, snakes, patrols and zero water or shade over large areas. Those guys are really impressive. The fact that the smugglers make an effort to conceal their tracks, that they know they will be tracked is interesting. You would think they would select a route not covered by the Shadow Wolves.
That is critically important. James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds describes five characteristics necessary for a group to be “smarter” than any one of its members:
Just for starters, the educational system has destroyed diversity of opinion in the ruling class; the more time you spend being education processed the more likely it is that you are made uncomfortable by diversity of opinions.
Makes a lot of assumptions about people you do not know. And a lot of those people are going to be friends, neighbors even relatives. There are some very fine people who hold different political views, chattering or not.