Glen, The style matters. Oddly quite a bit. "Liberal elitism" is snobbish, aloof, and patronizing. Note, it is not the way in which they are "elite", but the "elitism" that rankles the most. Trump's financial-elite bull-in-a-china-shop schtick looks and feels very different, and there are many people who would much rather deal with it. Bill Clinton was a friggin' Rhodes scholar, but connected with everyday Americans, and wasn't, until he sought to get so aggressively dynastic, at risk of the "liberal elite" label. I've not heard it leveled at Carter either. On the other hand, Gore and Kerry reeked of it, and that was part of their problem.
As the article says towards the end: " “High information” people ignore evidence if it conflicts with their preferred narrative *all the time.* And while it may be naïve for voters to believe the promises of Trump and the Brexit campaigners — it has also been profoundly naïve for the cosmopolitan classes to believe that years of forced internationalism and forced political correctness were never going to end with a large scale backlash." ----------- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician U.S. Marine Corps <[email protected]> On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:22 PM, ┣glen┫ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 12/01/2016 10:11 AM, cody dooderson wrote: > > Sorry, but I found the first article very disturbing. It seems like an > opinion piece that might have come out during the rise of the Nazi party. > It blames the 'parasitic educated' class, praises the virtues of the > military service, and argues in favor racial segregation. > > My very shallow reading on the rise of the Nazi party led me to believe > that they had a very similar platform. > > +1 > > On a slight tangent: I'm still confused about why so many feel compelled > to prefix "elite" with "liberal". If this were really about anti-elitism, > we'd see just as much silly spewage toward buffoons like Trump (who just > knows better -- trust him -- he's the only one who can make america great > again). Despite my confusion, I'm inclined to believe it's because only > really lazy people yap incoherently about "elitism." The rest of us work > our butts off to specialize ... elite machinists, elite cowboys, elite bow > hunters, elite beer drinkers ... I am an elite. But I'm not a liberal. > So, the bias(es) inherent in articles like this are blatantly obvious. > > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Owen Densmore <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > I love it. The Elites are getting hammered. Snobocracy is now so > visible that it can be attacked for what it really is. > > > > http://quillette.com/2016/11/30/stop-calling-people-low- > information-voters/ <http://quillette.com/2016/11/ > 30/stop-calling-people-low-information-voters/> > > > > This was also referred to by this: > > http://quillette.com/2016/11/14/cut-out-the-literally- > hitler-hysteria/ <http://quillette.com/2016/11/14/cut-out-the-literally- > hitler-hysteria/> > > > > I love a good rant! Liberal Elites lost the election. Oh, wait, > maybe we *are* LEs? > > > -- > ␦glen? > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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