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OhioBack2Blue

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3. David Brooks

Reply to Turbineguy (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2025, 05:53 PM

Jul 14

"We, [the educated elite class] rigged the game so we succeeded and everybody else failed.

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We ended up creating a caste system, even though we pretend to be egalitarian.

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Trump
Musk
JD Vance
Peter Hegeseth
Stephen Miller
Laura Ingraham
They represent the educated elite.

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They are not pro-conservative, they are anti-left. They don't have a positive conservative vision for society, they just want to destroy the institutions that the left now dominates. And this means, in the first place, that they are astoundingly incompetent.

If what is right & wrong depends on what each individual feels then we are outside the bounds of civilization (Walter Lippmann, 1955).

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How the Elite Rigged Society [View all] Turbineguy Jul 14 OP

Interesting talk, but Brooks tends to overgeneralize dedl67 Jul 14 #1

They stole all our money, used it to buy shitty politicians and trick us into voting against our best interests. Initech Jul 14 #2

David Brooks OhioBack2Blue Jul 14 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author Rebl2 Jul 14 #8

This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Jul 14 #9

WHAT "positive conservative vision"? Skittles Jul 14 #10

I suspect there are a shit ton more liberal elites that have graduated from those universities. harumph Jul 14 #4

Do you see that person? Did you even look at that person. It could be you. Sessuch Jul 14 #5

Reagan era, then Bush and then his idiot son pushed for more deregulation and Passages Jul 14 #6

I'll raise you one George Carlin JanMichael Jul 14 #7

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