"Progressive" Elites Romanticize the Poor as They Dismantle the Middle Class
"Interestingly as much as leftists like to cloak themselves in the 'enlightened' morality of 'humanism' the greatest leaders of socialist regimes and ideologies were 'trans-humanists,' which is a polite way of saying they believed they were part of a superman class destined to subjugate and rule by virtue of superior genetic which put them in the ruling class... they wanted state engineered superman/super race....built for service to the anthill society run by the enlightened genetically pure elite for their personal benefit....Hitler was deeply into this social Darwinist dogma as was Stalin, Mao and Ford, Rockefeller, McArthur and Truman. Reading UN agenda 21 in conjunction with, or within the frame of reference, of the writings of Huxley, Russel, Wells and other proto-social/genetic Darwinists and you can see their plans in near actuation.....if the UN were to fully implement the Agenda 21 initiatives, the old world Plutocrats like Russel, Darwin, Wedgewood et al would see their utopia brought to reality....no national borders, no national sovereignty...just a small globalist class of "enlightened" philosopher-king regulators who have unilateral regulatory dispensation over the globes resources and population...they will first depopulate by 2/3 then create a class of engineered drones who exist to serve the global state ( meaning the small global elite). The Technocratic elite will enjoy the bounty of earths resources surrendered to them when old civil-empathy ideals like individual and national sovereignty and private property ownership are eliminated. It will be a trans-humanist engineered technocratic feudal utopia...unless you are one of the engineered 'super worker' class who's existence is tolerated by the elite for the sole purpose of serving the state. We have to keep reminding ourselves that in the entire history of mankind there have been less than a dozen truly free humanist societies...all of them but one was usurped by a tyranny....and there is plenty of indicators to prove the current so-called free western societies are under attack by creeping technocratic statism and transnational plutocracy." - WL Mackenzie Redux
‘The Revolt Against the Masses’ reveals liberalism’s elitist roots
February 15, 2014Michael Goodwin - Ever wonder why liberals insist they are fighting for the middle class but look down on working people? Ever wonder why progressives talk endlessly about diversity yet can’t tolerate the slightest dissent from their orthodoxy?
Wonder no more. Fred Siegel’s new book explains all you need to know about liberalism, a political philosophy that, despite good intentions, careened off track after World War I and hasn’t found its way back yet.
“The Revolt Against the Masses” is a brilliantly argued, well-timed case against reactionary snobs who were and remain disgusted with American society. Under the subtitle “How Liberalism has Undermined the Middle Class,” Siegel documents with scholarly detail the arrogance of elites who launched a movement that romanticizes the poor while trying, with distressing success, to dismantle the democratic, capitalist traditions that helped establish the middle class.
“The aim of liberalism’s founding writers and thinkers — such as Herbert Croly, Randolph Bourne, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis and H.L. Mencken — was to create an American aristocracy of sorts, to provide the same sense of hierarchy and order long associated with European statism,” he writes.
I have enjoyed many lively conversations with Siegel, and his voice jumps off the page. He approvingly quotes an early critic’s observation that a “psychological mechanism” allows progressive reformers to turn their own failings “into moral judgments against society.”
Siegel traces the movement from the era of Woodrow Wilson to our own, stopping along the way for details the way a travel writer samples local food. Wells, for example, is best remembered for science-fiction books like “The Time Machine,” but Siegel blames him for laying out “two central tropes of liberalism: a sense of superiority and a claim on the future.”
Croly, a founder of the New Republic magazine, held the average American in contempt and wanted a government led by enlightened experts. Mission accomplished.
Siegel, of St. Francis College and the Manhattan Institute, has a keen eye for hypocrisy. He twins liberalism’s hunger for “moral deregulation” with its appetite for overregulating everything else. He captures the religious fervor by labeling its leaders a “clerisy.”
The ultimate payoff is his depiction of Obama as the incarnation of the philosophy’s disdain for conventional life, including the president’s penchant for “authoritarian liberalism.” In that America, rights are given and taken by government experts.
In a remarkable book that has only one shortcoming — it’s too short — Siegel connects the dots between the founding motivations of liberalism and the failed social experiments of today.
From the dumbing down of education to extreme environmentalism, from anti-family poverty programs to free-speech curbs on campuses, the excesses of our times are laid out like the pieces of a puzzle. It is a clear-eyed vision of how we got to this troubled place.
Sadly, the damage continues. The president’s scandalous attempts to circumvent Congress and the Constitution by, among other things, re-writing ObamaCare to suit his political needs, demonstrate that the overreach will not stop voluntarily.
That is the challenge Siegel presents. Thanks to his brilliant work, none of us can claim ignorance.
The Great Lie of the Nanny State
November 14, 2009The Tenth Amendmend Center - Many of us, after years of indoctrination at our government schools, were left with a sense that there is a great government force working hard every day to protect us and look after our best interest. We were told that government standards keep us safe from disease, that government highway regulations keep us safe from car accidents, that federal agencies make sure that the food we eat will be healthy.
The result of all of this? Americans everywhere drive more carelessly, do not research what they put on their plate and take medications that leave them sicker, rather than healthier.
For government officials, free from the scrutiny of the free market and any sort of competition, they typically have one primary goal once they have obtained their coveted position of power- to retain that power and gain even more. This is a simple fact of human nature, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A great example is the Food and Drug Administration, which after obtaining the confidence of the republic’s masses has been responsible for regular introduction of medications that maim and even kill those who trust it’s oversight. This is hardly surprising when one considers that many FDA regulators were installed after terms as drug company lobbyists. Likewise, Federal officials entrusted with America’s food supply have allowed the greatest food experiment in the history of mankind- the use of Genetically Modified crops.
The dangers of this veil of protection not only enables Americans to become ignorant, mindless sheep but also allows the growth of power, as recently seen with the Federal forays into finance and medical care. Those who seek the protective hand of big brother pay a high price as they trust their quality of life to a largely self serving group of legislators. If the goal is a better quality of life, the solution is simple: more responsibility and less government involvement.
Oligarchy is what we got, so goodbye liberty
Junk Science - In 2010 Angelo Codevilla wrote a wonderful essay on the elites and why America has a very short time to prevent a complete socialist elitist takeover led by an army of elitist oligarchs, claiming “expertise.”
Read Codevilla on the rise of the administrative “expert” state “Scientific Pretense v Democracy”
http://spectator.org/articles/41862/scientific-pretense-vs-democracy
Then read Codevilla’s “America’s Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution”
http://spectator.org/articles/39326/americas-ruling-class-and-perils-revolution
So yesterday I read this essay on the oligarchy that has developed over the past 30 years by Mathew Continetti, and I must say it confirmed my pessimism.
It is a depressing and alarming litany of the developments that have produced the new leftist oligarchy. Look at the reality–the very rich are all crony capitalist socialists. The rich and influential are What Tom Wolfe Wrote about in Radical Chic, the Leonard Bernstein limousine liberals.
Capitalism and free market, limited government concepts have been extinguished by an overwhelming socialist strategy and a dense ignorance that starts with the schools and the chattering class.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376597/oligarchy-21st-century-matthew-continetti
Continetti explains is depressing detail, the development of a rich leftist elite–and how the noise about the Koch brothers is just a rhetorical cheap trick–you wanna know why the congress is run by leftist statists and there is nothing left of the Reagan resurgence of conservatism devoted to limited government by consent of the governed?
You wanna know why we are pushing a rock up the hill on every issue that’s important to sensible public policy that holds to individual liberty and freedom, free markets and property rights?
Read this:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376597/oligarchy-21st-century-matthew-continetti
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