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May 13, 2011

"We have never had an Establishment that was so ill-equipped to lead. It is the Establishment, not the people, that is falling down on the job."

Here in the early years of the twenty-first century, the American elite is a walking disaster and is in every way less capable than its predecessors.

It is less in touch with American history and culture, less personally honest, less productive, less forward looking, less effective at and less committed to child rearing, less freedom loving, less sacrificially patriotic and less entrepreneurial than predecessor generations. Its sense of entitlement and snobbery is greater than at any time since the American Revolution; its addiction to privilege is greater than during the Gilded Age and its ability to raise its young to be productive and courageous leaders of society has largely collapsed. -- Establishment Blues | Via Meadia

Posted by Vanderleun at May 13, 2011 10:32 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Something different was expected from the worst of the boomers and their progeny?

Posted by: Casca at May 13, 2011 11:08 AM

"A ry-ut izz an ugly ting. Und I tink it's chust about time vee had vun!"

Young Frankenstein

Posted by: sherlock at May 13, 2011 12:08 PM

Consider changes in education - in Academia. It used to be a Judeo-Christian education, since the very conception of the U.S.A. Isn't that what has changed the most? Sorry, but it wasn't the Muslims or the Jews or the Buddhist or the Hindus or the darling atheists who came up with the principles upon which the US Constitution was founded. Sorry. It was the Protestants who had EVERYTHING to lose under taxation without representation and everything to gain under religious freedom. We shouldn't throw out the very thread that started the fabric unless that is the intent. Edmund Burke advised the British Parliament in his Speech on Conciliation in 1775 that American colonists were highly educated and therefore not like other people: "Abeunt studia in mores. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze."
Education was different then. Even the word "Establishment" should offend us. It offends me. Academia has changed and therefore our people have changed. Americans are not special anymore, as Edmund Burke warned. And our immigrants are neither assimilating nor being educated properly. I just had a conversation with an immigrant neighbor - I've never heard "government program" used so many times in a single conversation about kids and domestic life in my entire life as a middle class American. It sickened me. Education means learning to play the system. Education means squeezing the tax-payers till he bleeds. Separation of church and state means Christians need to shut up while everyone else bully's their way to grab a piece of the pie - the pie that truly no longer exists. Sorry, immigrants. You came here for a better life and found a wasteland with a leader named Barack Hussein Obama.

Posted by: RedCarolina at May 13, 2011 3:32 PM


The people chose the Establishment by the election process or by promotion in corporate America, so we are pretty much screwed.

Posted by: Cilla Mitchell, Galveston Texas at May 14, 2011 10:53 AM

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