{"id":805,"date":"2014-05-29T14:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=805"},"modified":"2014-05-31T16:06:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T00:06:24","slug":"despite-their-talk-about-equality-the-ruling-class-thinks-theyre-better-than-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/despite-their-talk-about-equality-the-ruling-class-thinks-theyre-better-than-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Their Talk About Equality, The Ruling Class Thinks They&#8217;re Better Than You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/despite-their-talk-about-equality-the-ruling-class-thinks-theyre-better-than-you\/\" data-text=\"Despite Their Talk About Equality, The Ruling Class Thinks They&#038;%238217;re Better Than You\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>It hurts me to say we have a ruling class, but we do. \u00a0There are some elected and appointed officials, some members of Academia who advise them and unfortunately many journalists and members of the news media who believe that due to their superior ivy league educations, intellect and experience (however limited it may be) in government, education or journalism they are best suited to occupy the positions of power that shape and control life in America. \u00a0They believe in\u00a0theory over reality and bureaucracy over democracy. \u00a0The sturdy bubble they dwell in keeps them well insulated from reality and reason.<\/p>\n<p>They believe\u00a0they are better than you. \u00a0They know better than you how you should live. \u00a0They know better than you what you should eat. \u00a0They know better than you where (or if) you should work, what you should drive and whether you can be trusted to defend yourself. \u00a0And&#8230;they are wrong. \u00a0About everything.<\/p>\n<p>The middle class is their enemy. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because the middle class are sufficiently comfortable to accept the status quo while having enough education and common sense to reject the blue sky promises and \u00a0ludicrous attempts at utopia building of their &#8220;betters&#8221;. \u00a0Plus they don&#8217;t need or want anyone to take care of them &#8211; they want ot be left alone which is a do gooders worst nightmare. \u00a0Your efforts to get ahead, improve your lot or provide for your family are viewed as greed or crass consumerism. \u00a0If you succeed they view that as an injustice that requires rectification. \u00a0Of course, they are entitled to <em>their<\/em> compensations. \u00a0No inequality concerns there.<\/p>\n<p>While they speak in terms of social justice, income disparity and equality, in reality they are the worst kind of bigots &#8211; they think no one can get along without them. \u00a0And they are arrogant enough to believe that they can change human nature or the laws of economics with the stroke of a pen. \u00a0They think they are smarter than you and I but they lack the intelligence and common sense to know that they don&#8217;t and can&#8217;t know everything. \u00a0And that a person has the right to live their life as they see fit, fairness or not. \u00a0You see, life isn&#8217;t fair.<\/p>\n<p>They want to create change, and as all good community organizers know, before people will demand radical change you have to get them good and riled up. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s working. \u00a0But I think they change they are going to get isn&#8217;t the change they were expecting. \u00a0At least I hope it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet It hurts me to say we have a ruling class, but we do. \u00a0There are some elected and appointed officials, some members of Academia who advise them and unfortunately many journalists and members of the news media who believe that due to their superior&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-politics","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}