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2023-08-09 -Great Cultural Revolution
Too Little, Too Late
[SmallestMinority] The Rightmost edge of the Left is beginning to understand the situation. Too little, too late.

In Matt Taibbi’s August 1 Racket News column, (RTWT linked below) he says:

The cognoscenti never figured out or accepted that the support for protest candidates like Trump or Bernie Sanders even is rooted in wide generalized rage directed their way. To this day they don’t accept it. They keep thinking they can wish it away, describe it away (see Bump’s description of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as "not at this point serious competition"), indict it away. If you drop 76 charges on a candidate and he goes up in polls, you might want to consider that you might be part of the problem. But they can’t take even that heavy a hint.

Just last week David Brooks, the New York Times token "Conservative" wrote a piece, "What If We’re the Bad Guys Here?" (also linked below) in which he asks:

We built an entire social order that sorts and excludes people on the basis of the quality that we possess most: academic achievement. Highly educated parents go to elite schools, marry each other, work at high-paying professional jobs and pour enormous resources into our children, who get into the same elite schools, marry each other and pass their exclusive class privileges down from generation to generation.

Daniel Markovits summarized years of research in his book "The Meritocracy Trap": "Today, middle-class children lose out to the rich children at school, and middle-class adults lose out to elite graduates at work. Meritocracy blocks the middle class from opportunity. Then it blames those who lose a competition for income and status that, even when everyone plays by the rules, only the rich can win."
Read the rest at the link
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#1 Perhaps Brook's editorial is the first pebble in the rock slide.

This article explains Bernie Sanders, RFK, and Trump together. Interesting.
Posted by Bobby 2023-08-09 10:59||   2023-08-09 10:59|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ More likely, he will just be cancelled.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-09 11:11||   2023-08-09 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 They can't understand why, when they climb up on their stump and shout instructions, the crowd ignores them and keeps walking past.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-08-09 12:28||   2023-08-09 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Eventually, people will take more notice of them and they will realize that the stump was a very bad idea unless it is a Hogan’s Heroes style stump.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-09 12:46||   2023-08-09 12:46|| Front Page Top

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