The Elite (1 Viewer)

[Optimus Prime]

The elite are ruining the country

The elite are completely out of touch

The elite don’t understand what life is like for regular Americans

But who are the elite?

I can’t remember if I saw or read it but basically said “the Elite” are favorite boogeymen for both parties

When the left talks about the elite they are talking about rich people

When the right talk about the elite they are talking about educated or ‘cultured’ people

I thought it was an interesting point

And for both the elite is a small group of people who not only don’t understand your life they are about to come up with a bunch of laws that favor people like them

What does “The Elite” mean to you?

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Louisiana Republican Sen John Kennedy made a memorable contribution to a Trump rally in his state on November 14, casting himself as a “proud deplorable” in contrast to the “goat’s milk latte-drinking, avocado toast-eating insider’s elite.”........

'Proud Deplorable' Louisiana Republican Attacks 'Goat’s Milk Latte-Drinking, Avocado Toast-Eating' Elite

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.........While Ross, who was worth $2.9 billion in 2016, might have a hard time understanding the economic plight of working Americans, the reality is that 40 percent of Americans can’t cover a $400 emergency expense and 25 percent have no retirement savings whatsoever.......

Trump’s commerce secretary suggests unpaid federal workers take out loans to cover necessities

Wilbur Ross is totally out of touch.

www.vox.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

It's amazing to me that we're currently watching the worlds climate increasingly become more severe, hostile and extreme; claiming more lives and making more of the globe inhospitable to live. Yet, we still have the entrenched climate denialism that will seemingly never end. We're literally seeing climate related disaster's that weren't predicted for 30-50 years down the road today, and that's not enough to snap people our of their delusions and lies they've been fed. Climate scientist have almost always been very conservative with their projections out of fear of being labeled "extreme", and yet when we blow past their conservative worst case projections, it doesn't seem to register with people. And it's not like anybody can't say they haven't been effected at this point, we all have. The cognitive dissonance required to live like it's not happening borders on psychosis, yet a significant portion of the worlds populations is subject to it.

But yeah, let's just blame "the elites" trying to address problems and forget about "the elites" causing all of the problems and obfuscating the truth, preventing any sincere attempt to address the problems, and making money hand over fist while doing it.

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[superchuck500]

Those stupid glasses lol

 

[Taurus]

"Turning humanity into a bunch of pencil-necked Mr Magoo's, one baby at a time."

 

[superchuck500]

"Turning humanity into a bunch of pencil-necked Mr Magoo's, one baby at a time."

I’m 50, read and write all day and still don’t need glasses. These goofballs clearly don’t have strong genetics when it comes to eyesight . . . elite my arse.

 

[CoolBrees]

Elite has l different meanings to different people I guess.

I think it means those that are particularly superior in something.

They seem to think it means who looks most like Waldo in real life. I mean, put a striped cap in his head and a sweater and you wouldn’t find that sum birch in crowd no way.

 

[Optimus Prime]

"Turning humanity into a bunch of pencil-necked Mr Magoo's, one baby at a time."