You are cordially invited to take your unpatriotic, disrespectful, enjoying life at the expense of others a$$ somewhere else.

Rights and freedom are something earned. Obviously you don't want to put in the work. You'd rather have others do it for you.

Typical liberal

Who Are the Elites Who Have So Upset the Middle Class?

Victor Davis Hanson writes that to glimpse our next generation of elites, look at the Goldman Sachs interns and the junior faculty at Harvard.

The United States and Europe are seeing a surge in populist anger toward the so-called elites.

The German public, for example, is furious at Chancellor Angela Merkel for her position on immigration from the Middle East.

British voters have forsaken the postmodern European Union.

And working-class Americans have rallied around political outsider Donald Trump as their presidential favorite, something that neither the Clinton machine nor the establishment of the Republican Party anticipated.

But who exactly are these unpopular elites—and what exactly have they done that has enraged middle-class voters in Western democracies?

Since ancient times, elites have been defined various ways, sometimes by birth (the Greeks’ hoi aristoi), by capital (hoi plousioi), by perceived class (hoi oligoi), by acknowledged influence (hoi gnorimoi), by high culture (hoi beltistoi)—and sometimes by a combination of all of the above.

Today, people are especially mad at political elites, a loose term for those who govern at the state and federal level. They include not just our elected legislators, governors and president but also the unelected (and unaccountable) members of the vast government archipelago—Cabinet officers, bureaucratic grandees, top military officers and regulators.

Beyond these politicos, the Western elite is comprised too of the transnational mega-wealthy, who have been enriched by globalization, especially international finance, investments and technologies that lubricate worldwide dissemination of capital and communications.

An elite is also defined by education (preferably Ivy League and its coastal counterparts), residence (primarily between Boston and Washington on the East Coast and from San Diego to Berkeley on the Pacific), profession (executive positions in government, media, law, foundations, the arts and academia), celebrity (name recognition from television, Hollywood, network news, finance, etc.) and ideology, such as those prominent in the progressive movement.


To receive a glimpse of our next generation of elites, read the betrothal notices in The New York Times, look at the interns at Goldman Sachs and consider the junior faculty at Harvard.

These select few define our culture, educate young adults on college campuses, run governments, make most economic and foreign policy, entertain America and dispense the news. And the public is angry at them for a variety of reasons.

First, the elites seem to the middle classes to be out of touch and incompetent. Their sterling degrees and titles, voters increasingly think, do not reflect the quality of their minds or the depth of their educations, but have become status markers separating “them” from everyone else.

On top of that, these elites sometimes utter silly things, like that there are 57 states, that soldiers are “corps-men” and that ISIS is a “jayvee organization.”

The ruling class is not like those who once built the Hoover Dam, triumphed at the Battle of Midway, or built the interstate freeway system. Instead, the Wall Street implosion of 2008, the negotiations over the Iran deal, California’s stalled high-speed rail project, the Affordable Care Act meltdown and the doubling of the national debt in eight years reflect either inexperience and ignorance or perhaps indifference and callousness.

The immigration pushback was directed at the managerial class that allowed millions into the West without rudimentary vetting—the work of bunglers and ideologues, not true technocrats.

Americans increasingly pass on going to the movies, a genre that has devolved either into tired pyrotechnics, pale remakes of prior classics or psychodramas about the evils of corporations, the military or the CIA. It is now expected that a New York Times article will be followed soon by corrections acknowledging basic mistakes of fact and sourcing.

Second, public furor arises over elite sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy. Progressive elites are shielded from the ramifications of their own ideologies.

Open borders advocates like former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa or Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, for example, condemn walls and fences as backward and inhumane—and then ensure that their own residences are quite well fenced and protected from hoi polloi.

Al Gore is a progressive green prophet—but sold his bankrupt cable channel for millions of dollars to Al Jazeera, a company that is fueled by carbon-exporting, monarchical and largely anti-Semitic Qatar.

John Kerry is a big-tax, big-government aficionado—except when it is a question of avoiding taxes on his multimillion-dollar yacht by moving it from high-tax Massachusetts to a cheaper berth in low-tax Rhode Island.

The hypocrisy does not end there. Jet travel is supposedly the worse example of an outsized carbon footprint—except for environmentalists like Leonardo DiCaprio or Bono.

Academics decry wage imbalances among Wal-Mart employees but remain silent about the far greater pay inequity on campus, where graduate students and part-time lecturers often make less than half as much as full-time faculty for teaching identical classes.

Environmental elites in San Francisco demand that river water be diverted from agriculture to the sea to nourish delta baitfish—but they would not sacrifice a drop of their own claims on precious Sierra Nevada water. Again and again, the elites promote policies that they themselves do not live by.

Third, voters are tired of the condescension of the elites who castigate the backwardness of the non-elite. Such disdain focuses especially on the middle classes, who lack both the vulnerability of the truly impoverished and, supposedly, the culture and tastes of the higher classes.

Out-of-work miners do not enjoy “white privilege”; those on Ivy League campuses who mouth such platitudes usually do—and then exercise it by living and schooling their children apart from the romanticized “other.”

In emulation of medieval penance, the more one expresses pique at the perceived sins of someone deemed inferior, the more he is seen as virtuous—and exempt from social censure.

A perfect example of such disdain was Barack Obama’s 2008 rant about the working classes of Pennsylvania who failed him in the primary: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

When the future of Iraq hung in the balance, then-senator and subsequent Secretary of State John Kerry made similarly snobbish remarks. He warned students, “You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

A year after Kerry’s put-down, largely working-class soldiers and officers won the peace in Iraq through their courage and expertise during the surge of 2007 to 2008.

It’s not just in America. European elites are just as arrogant. Rather than defending the policy of admitting more than a million refugees into Germany from war zones in the Middle East (mostly young and un-vetted males), European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker huffed, “Borders are the worst invention ever made.” Juncker added, “We have to fight against nationalism.”

Note the combination of Juncker’s historical ignorance and pomposity: He apparently believes that borders are “invented” rather than reflective of ancient and organic differences of language, culture and ethnicity among neighboring peoples.

Elites are also too sophisticated to fall for “nationalism”: An Oxford don or a City of London hedge-fund manager should have more in common with a Brussels bureaucrat or a Harvard professor than with the dullards of the English working classes or the grasping entrepreneurs of the middle class, who work a few miles away in rural southeast Britain.

Such condescension also leads to inconsistency, which is yet another reason why the public is fed up. Politically incorrect utterances from caricatured white middle-class “buffoons” such as Paula Deen, Sarah Palin and Phil Robertson earn social stigma and ostracism.

Not so when presidential candidate Joe Biden once trivialized rival Barack Obama: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Did Biden mean prior black presidential candidates such as Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton were tongue-tied, dull, unkempt and homely?

Under the laws of elite liberal penance, Senate majority leader Harry Reid could not really have meant it when he patronized Obama as a “light-skinned” African-American “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

To the public, the elites are progressives who have created a politically correct culture that hinges on castigating non-elites for their supposed lack of race, class and gender sensitivity. The louder they decry middle-class illiberality, the more easily Barack Obama can caricature his own grandmother as a “typical white person,” or filmmaker Michael Moore can lament that the 9/11 attacks unfortunately killed thousands of fellow Americans in a blue state rather than a red one.

Fourth and last, the people feel that elites do not follow the laws. Sanctuary cities nullify federal immigration law—and yet if other less liberal cities were to follow such a Confederate precedent and declare federal handgun registration or protected species legislation null and void in their jurisdictions they would be castigated as insurrectionists.

The Clintons are the epitome of the rules not applying to ruling class. Hillary Clinton once rigged a cattle futures investment of $1,000 into a $100,000 profit at 34-trillion-to-1 odds and without consequences—and then added insult to injury by initially not paying taxes on her profits.

As secretary of state, she violated dozens of national security protocols, something that would earn other government employees either jail time or a pink slip.

Bill Clinton, for his part, has become the highest paid “chancellor” in higher education history, earning nearly $17 million over five years by trading on the influence of his secretary of state spouse—quite aside from plane rides he took aboard the “Lolita express” that would have earned others the charge of misogyny at the very least.

The Clintons may be the worst rule breakers but they are not the only ones. Plagiarists like Fareed Zakaria and Doris Kearns Goodwin or fabulists like Brian Williams take sabbaticals while others face expulsion or dismissal for the same transgressions.

No one at the IRS, who transformed a once disinterested tax collection agency into an ideological arm of the White House, was ever charged with a crime. Nor was former Attorney General Eric Holder, who used his government jet to take his family to the Belmont Stakes.

Western elites have become today’s versions of the ossified Vatican of the fifteenth century, the cocooned court of Versailles in the age of Louis XVI during the last throes of the ancien régime and the bloated Soviet apparatchiks on the dais during May Day parades in Moscow.

Amid a global backdrop of financial insecurity, spreading terrorism, instability in the Middle East and vast population migrations, is it any wonder that we are witnessing reformation, revolution and revolt from the ground up?

http://europe.newsweek.com/who-are-elites-who-have-so-upset-middle-class-497945?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo

The debates will be rigged because if they weren't Clinton wouldn't even have to show up to lose, and a good moderator will back up her dump truck full of dirt and dump it on her!

Trump's no angel, but he hasn't done anything yet to jeopardize our country. He'll get his chance hopefully since the only other real choice is Hitlery

Bombshell: ‘Washington Post’ Confirms Hillary Clinton Started the Birther Movement


by John Nolte 26 Sep 2015 (notice the date.... last year!)

New analysis from the Washington Post removes any doubt that the anti-Obama Birther movement was started in 2007 and 2008 by Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and her Democrat supporters.

As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, other left-wing media outlets, like Politico and the Guardian, had already traced the Birther movement back to Democrats and Ms. Clinton. Using his wayback machine on Wednesday, the Post‘s David Weigel took an in-depth look at the origins of the false rumors that President Obama is a practicing Muslim who was not born in a America. Weigel’s reporting contains the final pieces of a very disturbing puzzle.

What Weigel found and re-reported was astounding, details many of us had forgotten or never heard of, including a 2007 bombshell memo from the Clinton campaign’s chief strategist.

What the left-wing Weigel left out of his reporting was even more astounding, including a documented confrontation between Clinton and Obama over the Birther issue, and video of Hillary herself stoking doubt about Obama’s Christian faith.

Because the Washington Post‘s primary job is to protect Democrats, Weigel’s headline and conclusion are an objective lie. Despite the fact that what he uncovered (and chose to not cover) points directly to Ms. Clinton and her campaign, Weigel concludes she had nothing to do with the Birther movement.

Naturally, Weigel’s own facts support the exact opposite conclusion.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/09/26/washington-post-confirms-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/

Somebody in the Clinton camp needs to grow a brain!

Journalist: Sidney Blumenthal Raised Obama Birther Issue in 2008

The former Washington bureau chief of McClatchy Co. claimed on Twitter Friday that longtime Hillary Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal raised the issue of President Barack Obama's birthplace with him in 2008.

Asher is now the Washington editor for Injustice Watch, an investigative nonprofit organization.

Here is his post, which was first reported by Mediaite:

#CNN says #Hillary team in 2008 never raised #Obama's birth in #Kenya. Who is closer to #HRC than #SidBlumenthal, who told me face-to-face.
— James Asher (@jimasher) September 16, 2016

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/sidney-blumenthal-obama-birther-issue/2016/09/16/id/748733/

Media jump gun on branding Trump claim on Clinton birther role 'false'

Donald Trump’s claim Friday that Hillary Clinton and her 2008 campaign “started” the Obama birther controversy touched off a series of instant fact-checking from media outlets who branded the claim “false” – but it seems they may have jumped the gun.

“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it,” Trump said in Washington, D.C. Friday, referring to theories President Obama was not born in the United States. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States, period.”

Media outlets immediately branded his claim about Hillary Clinton's involvement as an outright falsehood.

“Trump admits Obama born in U.S. but falsely blames Clinton for starting rumors,” declared The Washington Post.

“Trump drops claim but falsely accuses Clinton of starting it,” said The New York Times.

However, that assertion was itself cast into doubt when former McClatchy D.C. Bureau Chief James Asher tweeted that long-time Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal had encouraged him to investigate the rumor that Obama was not born in America.

#CNN says #Hillary team in 2008 never raised #birther issue. #SidBlumenthal, long-time #HRC buddy, told me in person #Obama born in #kenya
— James Asher (@jimasher) September 16, 2016

@HillaryClinton So why did your man #sidblumenthal spread the #obama birther rumor to me in 2008, asking us to investigate? Remember?
— James Asher (@jimasher) September 16, 2016

His version of events raises questions about the Clinton campaign’s denials that it had anything to do with the controversy, but media outlets didn’t suggest any gray area.

Clinton 2008 campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle seemed to muddy the waters even further when, in denying that there was a connection, admitted that there was an Iowa volunteer who forwarded an email promoting the conspiracy.

“There was a volunteer coordinator, I believe in late 2007, I think in December, one of our volunteer coordinators in one of the counties in Iowa. I don't recall whether they were an actual paid staffer, but they did forward an e-mail that promoted the conspiracy,” she said on CNN, adding that Clinton herself made the decision to fire the person “immediately.”

Trump’s campaign immediately jumped on the Doyle interview, saying it vindicated Trump.

“With Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager admitting on national television and on Twitter that they promoted the rumors surrounding now-President Obama’s heritage, Mr. Trump has been fully vindicated,” spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/16/media-jump-gun-on-branding-trump-claim-on-clinton-birther-role-false.html

Thanks to liberal ideology...er uh....idiocy!

As one who fought for those rights and lost friends who died earning it for them I find it not only unpatriotic but very disrespectful and offensive to me and other service men and women....

Sadly, I hope the idiots enjoy the right to be disrespectful of those who earned it for them is all I can say

Typical Clinton/Obama supporter response....

"As long as you have something I want or need ..... but your flag is just a rag."

According to the opinion of The Daily IQ.... (I agree with a few of these only.... about 1/2, maybe a little more.... I think they missed or completely disregarded many of the important ones....)

12 Reasons Why Hillary Is Losing to Trump

1. Hispanics Don’t Like Her Enough
2. She Can’t Inspire A Big Youth-Voter Turnout
3. She Lost Her Chance To Win Over Republicans
4. She Can’t Beat Trump on Trade
5. So Many People Have Bought Into Trump’s Message
6. So Many People Outright Hate Her
7. History Is Against Her
8. Anti-Establishment Anger Is Against Her
9. Trump Has The Media On His Side
10. She’s The Least Popular Nominee Ever
11. Trump Has A More Persuasive Message
12. She’s Scrutinized More Than Trump

http://www.thedailyiq.com/Galleries/12-reasons-why-hillary-is-losing-to-trump/1?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=trumpvshill&utm_term=trpmwin&utm_content=trumpwin&utm_campaign=clueless

Reality Check: How Does Nobody Go To Jail In Wells Fargo Case After over 1.2 Million People Were Defrauded? And Why No Matter What Other Crimes The Bank Committed, They Have Been Granted Immunity!

http://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck/videos/1205025702895711/

Reality Check: Why "Health Issues" Prove Clinton and Trump Campaigns "Untrustworthy" on Many Levels

http://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck/videos/1206664126065202/

The Great Satan can only be defeated or brought down from the inside

It's not amazing, or something that happened over night, or even something 8 years of Oblowme's liberal leadership has accomplished on its own.... we've done it to ourselves with our mindless actions thru propagandized media direction, political corruption, and the stupidity of the American voter willing to allow it by voting away their own rights.

Wisconsin John Doe Leak Exposes Democrats’ Contempt For The Law

The Wisconsin John Doe affair is one of the more shameful episodes in modern American political history, in which a hyper-partisan Democrat district attorney weaponized the Wisconsin legal system against innocent families as part of a vicious and unhinged political crusade against conservatives. An assembly line of rubber-stamped search warrants and subpoenas, early-morning raids, threats from police officers to keep quiet, wanton property seizure: “I no longer feel safe,” one victim said, “and I don’t think I ever will.” The victims received such treatment simply because they dared to hold political opinions offensive to Wisconsin Democrats.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/09/15/wisconsin-john-doe-leak-exposes-democrats-contempt-law/

Like a plane full of lawyers going down in the ocean.... it would be a good start!

She is one person it is hard to wish good health and wishes to. Not because I'm a bad person but because thieves and liars don't rate well in my world and she has been proven to be both!

Hardly! She was cold a$$ busted editing video to alter an outcome or message..... propaganda 101

Your thinking like a Dumocrat!..... "The American people are too stupid for the truth or their own opinion"

Fitting and proper are better words