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>This elite formed when all of the smart kids started going off to college together and forming their own social bubble. You say that as if it's a bad thing.
by v64 10y ago
>This elite formed when all of the smart kids started going off to college together and forming their own social bubble.
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
- BurningFrog 10y agoIt is if they run your country and you're outside the bubble.
- v64 10y agoWho would you rather have running the country? The alternatives aren't even viable.
- sbmassey 10y agoIf that is the case, we should consider splitting the country up into more homogenous chunks
- marcoperaza 10y agoYes, some kind of federal system perhaps, with free movement between them, and a small national government to bind them together, so people can vote with both their ballots and feet. Too bad the progressive elite decided that system was too much of an obstacle to their agenda.
- sbmassey 10y agoIt's not so much the "progressive elite" as a general fact of human politics that in Federal systems power inexorably moves to the center as anything going wrong in the provinces will be taken over by the centralised state, but never vice versa. Nationhood is the only thing that seems able to resist this tendency at the present time.
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- BurningFrog 10y agoI would have people running their own lives.
- v64 10y agoHumanity decided long ago that running our own lives as hunters and gatherers wasn't the best we could do, and we came together to form societies and governments. No matter how you feel about it, you live in a society and have benefited from its public services, and there has to be some group of people to administer those public services.
- dexterdog 10y agoIt is. When a society is splintered and the elites try to rule as if they understand the masses, you will have greater strife.
- v64 10y agoCan you blame them? A large portion of the masses have aligned themselves with a con man.
- marcoperaza 10y agoThe Republican Party failed to field a credible candidate that spoke to Middle America. They, too, were blinded by the elite bubble. Trump saw the weakness and jumped on it.
- v64 10y agoThe Republican Party has failed to field a credible candidate for quite some time. If you believe in science and equal rights for women and minorities, those damn "elites" are all we have.
- marcoperaza 10y agoMitt Romney was a very good candidate, except for his ultimate lack of fight. If you really believe that women and minorities don't have equal rights, then I can only urge you to dig a little deeper. Gender wage discrimination is a made-up problem, the statistics that you hear don't control for career choice, hours-worked, positions-sought, etc. The problem with our police force is that it's not professionalized once you get below the federal level. Police are too aggressive and quick to use force, but it's not a racial issue. SJWism is a cancer on Western civilization and it's one of the most pressing problems we face, because it prevents us from having honest conversations about any other problem. Debates these days always devolve into accusations of racism/sexism/"ableism", or whatever the latest boogeyman "ism" is.
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