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| Victor Davis Hanson: The Globalist Mindset: They Hate You |
| 2018-12-18 |
| [American Greatness] Against what or whom is the contemporary Western public pushing back? The French non-Parisians against new green taxes on already unaffordable gasoline? Broke southern European Union nations against the financial demands of German bankers? The Eastern Europeans against French and German open-border mandates? The British masses against both the EU and their own government that either cannot or will not follow the will of the people and implement Brexit? The American populists against outsourcing, offshoring, and illegal immigration? The common target of all these populist pushbacks is an administrative and cultural elite that shares a set of transnational and globalist values and harbors mostly contempt for the majority of their own Neanderthal citizens who are deemed hopelessly unwoken to environmental, racial, gender, and cultural inevitabilities. In a word, the Ivy League, Oxbridge, and the Sorbonne masters of the universe assume that the world is on a predetermined trajectory. We are to follow an arc of history bending toward state-managed social justice if you will‐to end up as a sort of global Menlo Park, Malibu, Upper West Side, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Schwabing, or Kensington. No wonder, it is their ethical duty of transnationals to goad the fated, but sometimes stalled, process along. Like Aristocrats of Old Voters in consensual societies are often assumed too ignorant of the world beyond their borders, too encumbered with traditional racial, ethnic, gender, religious, and nationalist prejudices, and too ill-informed to know what is good for them. No wonder that sometimes hoi polloi must either vote repeatedly until they get it right, or follow executive and judicial fiats issued from their betters on high. In the globalist mindset, Brexit passed not because it was felt to be good by a majority or even advantageous for the United Kingdom, but because racists, xenophobes, nativists, protectionists, and chauvinists deluded the clueless public into thinking a pre-EU, and more racist and sexist Britain was somehow superior. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 Why not start with the elites instead of ending with them, in terms of the chopping block? |
| Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 2018-12-18 23:07 |
| #4 "A useful idea, the human," Asserted a broody ichneumon, "Which practically begs To be blessed with my eggs, Though each human shows no such acumen!" And is overly fond of bitumen? |
| Posted by: Unung Flolurong5779 2018-12-18 17:17 |
| #3 Years ago when I finally awoke from my liberal delusions, I realized the Progs love humanity as an abstract but hate people as they are. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-12-18 15:57 |
| #2 Hate is too strong. More the feelings a poor farmer has for their cattle. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-12-18 11:20 |
| #1 And they won't pay attention till their heads are literally on the chopping block. Lots of blood has shown to be a 'wake up call' in too many human records. Oops they did it again. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-12-18 07:13 |