Required Reading

You can click on the title for an American Thinker article that duscusses Codevilla's recent piece on the "ruling class."  I call they the Bloods and Crypts, but ruling class is probably more accurate.

Below is an excerpt that includes a reference to Elena Kagan's whitewash of Laurence Tribes plagiarism as an example of the class covering for its own.

If you read this discussion and the original, the problem in America become clear. The incessant attacks on basic values and good people becomes clear. The protection of morons and thieves by the media and politicians becomes clear.  The nature of the seemingly mindless ruling class becomes obvious.

Indeed, you understand why our forefathers felt motivated to put their fortunes in play and engage in a revolution against the ruling class. A true liberal, unlike the usurpers of that name, cannot abide by the destruction of individual rights and dignity. Jefferson, Madison, and so on had a hiring calling than fawning.

As noted below, two forces are on an "unavoidable collision course...."  I believe that and it is frightful. If this next election does not produce a reaction of the "Country" or "Productive" people that is swift and long-lasting, I fear the future.

I fear more the ruling class using its bureaucrats and army to close of further "rebellion" among the serfs. Aristocrats will tax and kill to maintain their ease. All this wonder about the Bildebergers and the like comes down to a concern that, as it tuns out, the ruling class wants to free itself of all this democratic stuff.

July 25, 2010

The Productive Class and the American Aristocracy

S. T.  Karnick

As the hostilities between the current government and the Tea Party movement have become increasingly rancorous, the division of American society into two cultures holding thoroughly incompatible worldviews has become obvious. In fact, the two forces are clearly on an unavoidable collision course...

In his excellent American Spectator article on "America's Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution," Angelo Codevilla calls these two antagonistic and irreconcilable groups the ruling class and the country party. Although I agree with Codevilla's outline of the two groups, I prefer to characterize them as the progressive aristocracy and the productive class. In fact, I think that it's vitally important for those in the productive class to understand that what Codevilla calls the ruling party is an aristocracy, albeit a corrupt one...

Codevilla notes that this ruling class is nothing like the American leaders of the past, who came from truly diverse backgrounds and held a variety of beliefs while accepting the nation's founding values. And unlike most past aristocracies, which were based on heredity, the progressive aristocracy is based on commitment to a set of ideas. Foremost among these is hostility toward Christianity: "While the unenlightened ones believe that man is created in the image and likeness of God and that we are subject to His and to His nature's laws, the enlightened ones know that we are products of evolution, driven by chance, the environment, and the will to primacy," Codevilla writes.

Accountability and personal responsibility -- the sine qua non of liberty and of the American experiment -- are kryptonite to the ruling class. In fact, Limbaugh notes, the aristocracy of today looks down upon real accomplishments, just as their predecessors in hereditary aristocracies often did, I would add. "The men in the country class are the fixers, and they're looked upon with disdain," Limbaugh notes.

Just as old-fashioned hereditary aristocracies in their corrupt mode enjoyed the privilege of breaking laws and social codes with impunity, so it is with ours today. Codevilla documents a vivid example in which the aristocracy kept its own from being held accountable for their misdeeds:

If, for example, you are Laurence Tribe in 1984, Harvard professor of law, leftist pillar of the establishment, you can "write" your magnum opus by using the products of your student assistant, Ron Klain.

When Tribe's assistant admitted to having plagiarized some of the material he wrote for the book published in Tribe's name, Tribe said the plagiarism was "inadvertent," Codevilla notes, and the Harvard Law School's Dean appointed a committee that whitewashed the incident. That dean, Elena Kagan, is now about to become a Justice on the Supreme Court. Thus are principles of accountability and responsibility flouted: 

Not one of these people did their jobs: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. By contrast, for example, learned papers and distinguished careers in climatology at MIT (Richard Lindzen) or UVA (S. Fred Singer) are not enough for their questions about "global warming" to be taken seriously. For our ruling class, identity always trumps.

 Etc.

Remember, identity always trumps.

There are, then, four groups to consider: the oligarchs and the people they can use; the productive class pays for the first two and is searching for a way to control and teach the first two; the last group are the sheep who will pay taxes to whomever comes to pick them up. If this class grow large, then the productive class has no chance.

The ruling class is using people, conditioning them, to be loyal subjects.  Even though the rulers write the checks and hire the journalists, the serfs can be turned. They need only to understand they are being used, like useful idiots. See the original TV movie series:  V.  Things can turn quickly.

The key to take away from these thoughts:  personal responsibility vs. collective control.   If you are not staunchly for personal responsibility, you are, by default, a serf.

I believe we have passed the point where there are fewer productive persons in the U.S. than users. The producers are being taxed to pay for the rest, to pay Goldman Sachs, to sustain the ruling class. The ruling class takes our money to defeat us. They continue their reign by keeping everyone confused, trying to express reason, and ducking when "racism" is thrown around.  The average person now sees this confusion - it is like a bad marriage when one spouse realizes the other has been playing "games." Divorce is an ugly thing.

The use of the Marxist manipulation currently in favor is a tool of the ruling class that thinks it can control the Marxists. Carlos the Jackal, a Marxist, said from jail the Marxist will use the terrorists until it is time to push them aside. Do we need all this 15th Century oligarchy crap? Do we see where a loss of personal responsibility leads?

One way or another, the class war will come to an end. The earlier the surgery, the less tissue will be lost.