Selwyn Duke – The New American Jan 28, 2024
“Do you know what a Polish sandwich looks like?” a communist-era joke went. Answer:
“Two slices of bread and a ration card for the meat in between.”
Unfortunately, Poles weren’t laughing at the time. We may not be, either, in a bit of time — that is, if our pseudo-elites get their way.
This conclusion is suggested by a new poll showing that, shockingly, 77 percent of higher-income Americans overall and almost 90 percent of those from “top universities” believe in a strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity in order to combat “climate change.” In fact, nearly 60 percent of such people believe there’s too much liberty in America even though, objectively speaking, we’re less free than ever.
Moreover, in another example of the pseudo-elite vs. street divide, 63 percent of Americans in general oppose the above rationing policy.
Reporting on the story, The College Fix writes that the “Committee to Unleash Prosperity [CUP], in a survey that sought to measure the beliefs of ‘elites,’ stated the findings reveal climate change ‘is clearly an obsession of the very rich and highly educated.’” The site also informs:
The poll, released this month and titled “Them vs. U.S.: The two Americas and how the nation’s elite is out of touch with average Americans,” was billed by the committee as a “first-of-its-kind look at the views of the American Elite.”
They are defined as “people having at least one post-graduate degree, earning at least $150,000 annually, and living in high-population density areas (more than 10,000 people per square mile in their zip code).”
… The report is based on two surveys of 1,000 elites conducted last fall.
“The study also examined a sub-sample of elites, adults who attended Ivy League schools or other elite private schools, including Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago. Roughly half of those we classify as ‘elites’ attended one of these schools. For the purpose of this study, we label those who attended one of these schools as ‘Ivy League Graduates,’” according to the group.
Birkenstock-wearing, Latte-drinking, Kale-eating Soy Boy Upper Managers of the World Unite?
So when failed presidential candidate John Edwards said on the campaign trail in 2004 that there are “two Americas,” he was right — just not in the way he thought. CUP illustrates this well, summarizing its findings:
- In a time when most Americans have suffered a loss of real take-home pay, 74% of elites say they are financially better off today than in the past versus 20% of all Americans.
- Nearly six in ten say there is too much individual freedom in America – double the rate of all Americans.
- More than two-thirds (67%) favor rationing of vital energy and food sources to combat the threat of climate change.
- In stark contrast to the rest of America, 70% of the Elites trust the government to “do the right thing most of the time.”
- Two-thirds (67%) say teachers and other educational professionals should decide what children are taught rather than letting parents decide.
- Somewhere between half and two-thirds favor banning things like SUVs, gas stoves, air conditioning, and non-essential air travel to protect the environment.
- About six of ten elites have a favorable opinion of the so-called talking professions—lawyers, lobbyists, politicians, and journalists.
- President Joe Biden enjoys an 84% job approval rating from this group – roughly twice as high as the general public.
Power Line’s John Hinderaker points out, however, that it’s a mistake calling these people “elite” — and not because they’re merely pseudo-elites, wholly unspectacular intellectually and morally. Rather, adding perspective, he writes:
Ten thousand people per square mile represents a high-density urban environment. But in that context, $150,000 a year is no princely salary. Nationwide, it takes far more–around $650,000 annually–to be in the top 1% in income. A person who lives in a big city and earns $150,000 is not, in any financial sense, elite.
So the key element in [the] formula is having a postgraduate degree. Basically, what we are surveying here is people with graduate degrees who live in cities, the large majority of whom don’t make a great deal of money. Many in that group are probably women….
In fact, with these people having been indoctrinated out of their common sense, coming to mind could be the saying, “Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
As for many respondents possibly being female, note that young women in large cities actually enjoy relative wage parity with men; in fact, they out-earn their male counterparts in several large metropolises.
This said and as the electoral “sex gap” reflects, women are generally more liberal than men are; women are also significantly more likely to support “left-wing authoritarianism,” according to a study cited by famed psychologist Jordan Peterson.
Whatever their sex, however, clear is that a more accurate way than even “pseudo-elite” to describe most of these people is “useful idiots.” As with the liberal NYC parent who balked at “diversity” after an integration plan affected his kids’ school — saying “It’s more complicated when it’s about your own children” — these “progressives” aren’t big on living with their own ideals.
But they’d have to.
Under the kind of government they’d (unwittingly) enable, only a minuscule ruling pseudo-elite enjoy power, position, pocketbook, and perks. The billionaire Soros and Gates clans may be able to buy themselves a place at the table, but $150k (which they’d no longer command, anyway) will place you among the serfs.
In other words, these useful idiots would be subject to rationing themselves — inclusive of the arts-and-croissant-crowd pleasures of which they’re so fond. Our entire modern lifestyle, after all, is energy dependent.
The lesson is that the hellfire demons of despotism can be liberated but not moderated, and will happily consume along with those who’d tighten their bonds, those who would loose them.
Maybe the poll is legitimate or maybe it is not. If you can rig the American presidential elections and the Superbowl, I think rigging a poll would be a piece of cake…
What I am saying is you create a message you want people to believe, you say most people believe it, and then cross your fingers that the sheeple instinct takes over…
TODAY
RACISM IS OK WHEN WE DO IT
Fury as Sadiq Khan proudly reveals new train line names –
£6.3m ws wasted on this nonsense
Cappi Demarco said think how many migrants we could have imported and houses with this money
‘Sadiq Khan’s renaming of the London Overground’s six lines has prompted fury after it was revealed,
rail workers are said to be disgusted
Each line on the train network is being given a separate rainbow colour in recognition of new LBGT homosexual rights and new name in honour of significant groups mainly from black history.
The line names will be the Liberty Line, Lioness Line, Mildmay Line, Suffragette Line, Weaver Line and Windrush Line.
The Golda Meyer line and Nutenyahu lines were runners up
The whopping cost will be paid for from the mayor’s Greater London Authority budget, after a freedom of information request from MailOnline also revealed Transport for London (TfL) paid a branding agency more than £115,000 to carry out research into which groups to name the lines after.
Khan hailed the new names as “brilliant”, adding that they would save passengers from “nightmare” journeys as a result of the Overground network not having names
But critics have described it as “nonsense” and accused TfL of “wasting money left, right and centre”, with Khan himself admitting “not everybody is going to be happy”.Khan’s Tory opponent in May’s mayoral election, Susan Hall told MailOnline: “Sadiq Khan is only interested in this virtue signalling nonsense. The only surprise from today’s announcement is that he hasn’t named one of them the Sadiq line.
Khan’s Tory opponent in May’s mayoral election, Susan Hall told MailOnline The only surprise from today’s announcement is that he hasn’t named one of them the Sadiq line.
“The Central line is in a terrible state, TfL is wasting money left, right and centre, crime on the Tube is soaring, black gangs seem to rule the underground anf decaying infra structure is maybe months from a major accident and Sadiq Khan is ignoring all of this to focus on his own PR. I will listen to Londoners, fix the problems with TfL and get a grip of crime.”
we do not agree with racism, we will change names back to how they were
Names suggested by rail users
I1. The I’ve been stabbed line
2. The Antisemitic Line
3. The Marching lefty Mob Line
4 acid attack line
5 LBGT perversion line
I only read the beginning, because there’s a satisfying feast in the first few paragraphs.
As usual on here, we have the communist pitch, and it’s so shallow you couldn’t use a sheeple hair to gauge its depth.
While I’ve written academic papers to distinction level, not my interpretation, but 86%, I wouldn’t call myself as seriously educated, and so I missed the embedded trick.
As a rule, wealthy thicko sheeple and the highly educated are deeply embedded in the Nazi system. They have stake, they want to protect their stake, and be seen to be doing the right thing. They don’t want to be cancelled.
Yesterday I watched a video based on peer reviewed research in a top Nazi publication. The NaziTube channel Suspicious Observers released this video about the collapse of the North Atlantic system which keeps UK and some Northern European weather milder than it should be, given our high latitude. Going on the published research, we could shortly be in a mini ice age, or even worse. The vid makes reference to the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, and while Ben says clearly, it won’t happen this fast, it’s going to happen faster than most think.
This video now appears to be blocked in the UK.
Given the Nazis predeliction for loading everything with taxes, we know that once a tax is established, it’s almost impossible to remove. Okay, you can rename it, as with Poll Tax, but it never went away.
Because of this high tax culture on services and products we need, put in place, because our Nazi elites detest the sheeple, when this cold bomb sets in, it’s going to decimate Nazi UK.
I jest not. We are talking about an average drop in UK temperatures of around – 15°C, so more like Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and Labrador. Oh Lordy, brass balls. lol
Now, the research is saying this is baked in. This is not a ‘might’ or ‘maybe’ fake news angle. This is going to happen. And another thing, another massive cold bomb is also set to release, and that is The Beaufort Gyre.
Below is the link to the video before the likely banned video. Go to 1.17, it is a very short vid in its entirety.
https://youtu.be/UmLv_HviNOY?si=srq-NO6VQbDLggEG
So back to thicko wealthy educated sheeple elites, and the fact they know diddly squat. Not only is the UK facing economic collapse, has a tax structure which will destroy what remains of the economy, facing its own desired WW3, facing a possible huge CME, and of course, the 2030s to late 2040s micronova.
All the good times, while Joos, Zionists, and Nazis on here whine about the WEF, Nazi Schwab, depopulation (big lol), and free chips for thicko sheeple, all laid out to misdirect anyone thick enough to be taken in by it.
When you consider Nazi UK can only just about cope with what are realistically cold snaps, we are finished.
Below is another video of a guy making a trip in Alaska. It’s a long video. Despite his best efforts to deal with extreme cold, his trip in this video is called into question. You want to see the difference between a cold snap, and serious cold. How about running your vehicle for 6 solid days and probably longer, as his friends neighbour does.
While it’s a long video, you can skip through it, but the scenery is stunning.
https://youtu.be/o7uCEoM1keU?si=vusGkigzto7g9tWA
It appears blocked video is now available.
It’s short…
https://youtu.be/l83iSbwdNEg?si=ByyTF2j7aau_V9Jz
“Climate Change” is a Spoonerism for women who believe in Gender Dysphoria viz. Change My Clit
This is a very telling statistic given that according to official figures 51% of Ivy League students are not White and 14% (at least!) are Jewish.
So effectively it is the same proportion of the sample which advocates this b#llshite
Another day another dime meanwhile blacks do their time til they do their next crime…
What the hell are “educated elites” supposed to be? Or is this just another name for the rich yid communist scum or the woke braindead arselickers that support them. Educated elites Ha, give me a break!
carl jones take your imaginative natzis and F off please quickly and now
As Simon sagely noted above..so called polls aren’t designed to tell you what imbeciles think (an oxymoron)..they are designed to tell imbeciles what to think..
So that they trot into the stable like the good little collectivist herd animals they are..
and furthermore and as an aside..it can also prove that the contents of the Ivy league ivory towers are without doubt credentialed imbeciles… of course El-itists hate the peasants and graze on idiocy all day long.. so any nonsense they can imbibe to in anyway limit the proles or kill them is always welcome.. and eagerly seized upon… but that in no way diminishes their imbecility…
Which is quite stunning…an Education has ruined many a good mind..
Thats what happens when the survey pushed tells those elites to back the parroted taglines or lose their incomes. Good obedient clowns. Fekem.
I’d say they are the way they are due to, one, the fact that they attend “elite” universities as “legacies” (in other words, their parents, etc., attended these colleges); two, the expression “it’s not what you know but who you know” comes to mind; three, they’ve likely never even been around folks who actually work for a living or rural folks; four, the only spirituality they understand is New Age crapola; five, the girly men in this group have no clue as to what a manly man is, and yes, the majority of these useful idiots are Karen type women….I could go on. And, oh yeah, they’re hypocrites to the T!
“89% of “Educated Elites Want Strict Rationing of Gas, Meat and Electricity” … I went to an Ivy League university and can tell you the percentage touted may be about correct as I despised approximately 90% of the festering assholes who were my schoolmates.
The one I went to was infested with Jew scum and too many over-privileged smarmy trust fund brats…I seemed to be one of the few who had to work actual f*cking jobs. Ok, one of those jobs was as a musician in a fairly popular band in which I also got to party and plow plenty of comely coeds, but it was still work. Sort of. 🙂 But I did have to work service industry jobs in between the band shows and the sports season as I was an intercollegiate athlete as well.
An aside: One summer job was at a large bar and entertainment complex along the river. One of my many co-workers was a girl who was pre-med at the same Ivy League uni. She was a shapely beautiful black girl with a set of cans that could stop traffic. I recall she drove a BMW (I drove a motorcycle then, which apparently titillated her) and she was clearly one of the rare “talented 10%” of blacks of good stock and not worthless. We ended up chatting and flirting a few times out with coworkers and I was delighted to find she was normal and decent with none of the entitled Ivy attitude. We ended up screwing each other’s brains out a few times, usually in fairly public places. So I guess my Ivy years weren’t all bad, but a well-adjusted decent young lady like her was certainly the exception rather than the norm in the Ivy world.
I always sneer when writers use the term “elites” when talking about predators, criminal scum, and enemies of humanity. Just because they have wealth, usually ill-gotten, doesn’t mean they’re actually worth any more than a cup of lukewarm pig piss.