Earlier (by Sam Francis, 2002): Ballot Exposes Elite-Public Conflict On Immigration
[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
I had by no means heard of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity till this week, when a reference to them confirmed up on Twitter.
A stunning ballot by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity (CUP) exposes the utter contempt the elite holds most of the people in, with greater than three quarters eager to ration meals and vitality to fight ‘local weather change’ and a majority wanting air journey for holidays banned.
CUP… pic.twitter.com/oXeCcK4Tfz
— William Foster (@PNWarlord) January 25, 2024
Going to their web site I see that they’re a foyer for Provide-Facet Economics and Reaganite politics.
The primary three names I see on the CUP web site as principals of the outfit are Steve Forbes the flat-tax man, Arthur Laffer the Laffer Curve man—reducing tax charges will increase tax revenues—and Stephen Moore, a infamous immigration fanatic who Donald Trump needed to make a governor of the Federal Reserve till Congress squashed the thought.
What’s to not like? Nothing, far as I’m involved, besides the melancholy hum of nostalgia that I hear as I converse these names,
Properly sure, this week at any price. That reference on Twitter took me to a report that CUP put out final month: “Them vs. U.S.”
The report issues a survey—it’s truly two surveys, however they talk about them as one—that CUP commissioned final September from extremely respectable polling corporations.
Quote from the Govt Abstract,
The survey is a first-of-its-kind take a look at the views of the American Elite—outlined as folks having a minimum of one post-graduate diploma, incomes a minimum of $150,000 yearly, and dwelling in high-population density areas (greater than 10,000 folks per sq. mile of their zip code)—and compares them to what the typical American thinks. The Elites characterize one % of the U.S. inhabitants however have an outsized voice on public coverage in the US, with their views seeming someway to dominate the nationwide dialog.Them vs. U.S.—The Two Americas and How the Nation’s Elite Is Out of Contact with Common People
Ready by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity Employees
Studying the factor, I paused there to see how far I’m from belonging to the elite, to that one %. Far sufficient, for positive. I don’t have a post-grad diploma, have by no means earned something like $150K, and my zip code logs solely fourteen hundred folks to the sq. mile.
So I’m Us, not Them.
Heck, I knew that, however simply needed to make certain.
OK, what does this survey inform us? Some highlights:
- “Solely about 20 % of all People say they imagine their funds are getting higher now. However among the many Elite, that quantity greater than triples to 74 % who say they’re higher off. And among the many Ivy League faculty graduates, 88 % say they’re higher off.”
- “When People are requested if there may be an excessive amount of or too little freedom, Elites are 3 times extra more likely to say that there’s an excessive amount of particular person freedom in America than all People. Virtually six out of ten of the graduates from Elite faculties assume there may be an excessive amount of freedom.”
- “An astonishing 77 % of the Elites—together with practically 90 % of the Elites who graduated from the highest universities—favor rationing of vitality, fuel, and meat to fight local weather change. Amongst all People, 63 % oppose this coverage”
- “At most, half of People have a good opinion of attorneys, lobbyists, union leaders, or journalists. Nevertheless, nearly 80 % of the elites maintain a good opinion of this group of pros, and practically 90 % of the elite school attendees do. As for members of Congress, 28 % have a good opinion versus 67 % of Elites.”
Not a complete lot of surprises there, then. It’s their world, we simply dwell in it. The Communist Coup is official.
It has in fact at all times been thus. Approach again within the 1840s a personality in certainly one of Disraeli’s novels noticed that Queen Victoria reigned over not one nation however two:
Two nations; between whom there isn’t a intercourse and no sympathy; who’re as unaware of one another’s habits, ideas, and emotions, as in the event that they have been dwellers in several zones, or inhabitants of various planets; who’re shaped by a unique breeding, are fed by a unique meals, are ordered by completely different manners, and aren’t ruled by the identical legal guidelines.[ Sybil, Or, The Two Nations, Book 2, Chapter 5]
And on the matter of wealthy of us’ funds getting higher whereas poor of us’ decline, a unique individual noticed lengthy earlier than that
For unto each one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: however from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
So in fact there have at all times been wealthy and poor, dwelling considerably completely different lives. The distinction immediately is ideological, a deep distinction of perception.
Disraeli’s two (English) nations each liked their nation and regarded foreigners as inferior. Each accepted their monarch as lawful ruler and Christianity as revealed fact. Each willingly equipped manpower to their nation’s armed forces, albeit in several ranks.
As we speak we’ve got luxurious beliefs to go together with luxurious existence—beliefs just like the Local weather Change cult and The Psychic Unity of Mankind.
I’ll go away you to lookup the last word origins of these cults for your self. This CUP report solely says it is aware of how they’re propagated within the current day:
Simply over half of the Elites have a level from one of many twelve Elite universities. These colleges play a vital function in defining the Elite tradition and views.
I feel that’s proper. It fortifies my perception that one precondition for the survival of America is the utter and complete annihilation of the elite universities.
John Derbyshire [email him] writes an unimaginable quantity on all kinds of topics for every kind of shops. (This not contains Nationwide Evaluation, whose editors had some form of tantrum and fired him.) He’s the creator of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and a number of other different books. He has had two books revealed by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (additionally obtainable in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
