{"id":281881,"date":"2024-02-16T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T08:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=281881"},"modified":"2024-02-17T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:43:42","slug":"really-commissar-89-of-educated-elites-want-strict-rationing-of-gas-meat-and-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=281881","title":{"rendered":"Really Commissar? 89% of \u201cEducated Elites\u201d Want Strict Rationing of Gas, Meat and Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Selwyn Duke \u2013 The New American Jan 28, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u201cDo you know what a Polish sandwich looks like?\u201d a communist-era joke went. Answer:<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo slices of bread and a ration card for the meat in between.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Poles weren\u2019t laughing at the time. We may not be, either, in a bit of time \u2014 that is, if our pseudo-elites get their way.<\/p>\n

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 \u201ctop universities\u201d believe in a strict rationing of gas, meat, and electricity in order to combat \u201cclimate change.\u201d In fact, nearly 60 percent of such people believe there\u2019s too much liberty in America even though, objectively speaking, we\u2019re less free than ever.<\/p>\n

Moreover, in another example of the pseudo-elite vs. street divide, 63 percent of Americans in general oppose the above rationing policy.<\/p>\n

Reporting on the story, The College Fix writes<\/a> that the \u201cCommittee to Unleash Prosperity [CUP], in a survey that sought to measure the beliefs of \u2018elites,\u2019 stated<\/a> the findings reveal climate change \u2018is clearly an obsession of the very rich and highly educated.\u2019\u201d The site also informs:<\/p>\n

The poll, released this month and titled \u201cThem vs. U.S.: The two Americas and how the nation\u2019s elite is out of touch with average Americans,\u201d was billed by the committee as a \u201cfirst-of-its-kind look at the views of the American Elite.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are defined as \u201cpeople 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).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 The report is based on two surveys of 1,000 elites conducted last fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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 \u2018elites\u2019 attended one of these schools. For the purpose of this study, we label those who attended one of these schools as \u2018Ivy League Graduates,\u2019\u201d according to the group.<\/p>\n

Birkenstock-wearing, Latte-drinking, Kale-eating Soy Boy Upper Managers of the World Unite?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

So when failed presidential candidate John Edwards said<\/a> on the campaign trail in 2004 that there are \u201ctwo Americas,\u201d he was right \u2014 just not in the way he thought. CUP illustrates this well, summarizing its findings:<\/p>\n