Our New Aristocracy and The Little People
The New Aristocracy includes our political class and its hangers on, crony capitalists, most bureaucrats, “public servants” like Eliot Spitzer, “celebrities”, most journalists, “the media”, limousine liberals, big banks, Wall Street, most academics, public employee unions, race hustlers, diversity “trainers”, “environmentalists”, and “progressives” of all stripes.
One of the strangest things about the modern progression in liberal thought is its increasing comfort with elitism and high style. Over the last 30 years, the enjoyment of refined tastes, both material and psychological, has become a hallmark of liberalism — hand in glove with the art of professional altruism, so necessary to the guilt-free enjoyment of the good life. Take most any contemporary issue, and the theme of elite progressivism predominates.
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