Economic leveling is an idea sold as making poor people more equal. What it does is make more Middle-Class people poor while the elite ruling class gets richer. At least one State Board of education has applied this thinking to math. They want to hold kids back so others will feel more equal.
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Elitism
“The Battle Lines of American Politics Have Been Drawn”
Populism vs Elitism – The battle lines of American politics have been drawn and the Citizens of our Nation are witnessing the differences between Populism and Elitism.
Promoted From the Comments – the Elitism Is Strong Within Her…..and Her Brother, Neil Dietsch. Part 2
Elitism – People taking away choices from other since the Start of Time. Steve started this ball rolling with his post about Jeanne Dietsch (“NH Democrat Jeanne Deitsch – Elitist White-Tower Snob“) when she made it clear that a lot parents would be losers when and if they decided to homeschool their children (especially if … Read more
Promoted From the Comments – the Elitism Is Strong Within Her…..and Her Brother.
Democrat Jeanne Dietsch wants Government to choose for you. Denise Ricciardi, her Republican opponent in NH State Senate District 9, wants YOU to make choices for you and yours. Should be an easy pick but let me get on with the Comments.
NH Democrat Jeanne Deitsch – Elitist White-Tower Snob
We warned New Hampshire about Democrat candidate Jeanne Dietsch, (Sen. Dist 9), but not enough Republicans turned out to keep her from winning in the 2018 Blue Wave election. An error they should be sure to correct come November. Why?
“What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn’t make a difference?”
Over at Townhall, Judge Napolitano penned a column that caught my eye:
What if you are only allowed to vote because it doesn’t make a difference? What if no matter how you vote, the elites get to have it their way? What if “one person, one vote” is just a fiction created by the government to induce your compliance?…
A charade, a farce, and the meaning of democracy is no more. This country was built on the foundation of one man, one vote; that this one vote is precious and it should count for something. Casting that vote is the culmination of a sovereign citizen deciding how they will be governed by the elected and that includes guidance to the elected when voting on specific issues. The problem here is that the “elected” (School Board) decided that the citizens don’t know what is best for them (or their families). To start things off, watch Kurt Webber, Chair of the Gilford School Board, reaction to the call out of “arrogance” as a town resident takes him to task for ignoring the will of the voters:
Yes, Webber is not a happy camper and it is obvious that he is not too keen at being taken to task. Yes, it is edited, but the context of the full video can be watched here at my blog, GilfordGrok (“all things Gilford”), Part 4, starting at about 5:20). The event was a joint meeting of the Selectmen and School Board held to ‘listen to public input’ as each is having to deal with citizens having brought forward Petition Warrants that, if implemented, would place tax caps on their budgets.
Why? What the Judge is talking about has happened in my hamlet – the resident is trying to get Webber to understand why people in town are upset with School Board. The topic – full day kindergarten (the local communities in NH can make that decision for themselves) and why did the School Board decide to unilaterally implement it EVEN AS THE TOWN FOLK HAD PREVIOUSLY VOTED IT DOWN? Sounds like elitists telling the proles “we don’t care about your vote”.
Are you in the Bubble? The Elite one, that is….
Certainly, those at Davos are the world Elite, globe-trotting to Switzerland to talk about the ills of the world and what they can do about it (or transform it) without truly understanding the root cause of the problem. And if you want to know what I believe an Elite to be, well, here you go. So, are you an Elite? Is your life experience set you up to be one (regardless of your actual socioeconomic standing)? I bumped into this post:
What the heck am I talking about? I’m talking about my score on the 20-question “How Thick Is Your Bubble?” quiz. (Try it: it only takes about 60 seconds.)
Still puzzled? The quiz is connected with the appearance of Charles Murray’s new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, which will be published next Tuesday. The book lays out Murray’s thesis that much of America’s upper middle class and upper class—a “cognitive elite”—exist in a bubble from the rest of the middle and working class. A long excerpt appeared over the weekend in the Wall Street Journal:
For most of our nation’s history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world—for whites, anyway. . . Americans love to see themselves this way. But there’s a problem: It’s not true anymore, and it has been progressively less true since the 1960s. . .
Over the past 50 years, that common civic culture has unraveled. We have developed a new upper class with advanced educations, often obtained at elite schools, sharing tastes and preferences that set them apart from mainstream America. At the same time, we have developed a new lower class, characterized not by poverty but by withdrawal from America’s core cultural institutions.
Take the quiz; my results after the jump.