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The Moral
Preeners vs. Nearly Everyone Else
By Kate Burch
I read this morning that Syrian refugees who end up in Virginia are
being resettled in that state’s poorest communities, action that will
certainly strain already overstretched resources and probably cause at
least concern and possibly harm to the residents of those areas.
This seems to me a very good example of what is a frequent
pattern: our elites implementing policies that make them look
good among their peers, totally regardless of how their actions may
increase hazards and the miseries of average Americans. The
elites, of course, arrange things so that they and their children can
remain in the bubble and not suffer the consequences of dangerous urban
spaces; failing and frequently unsafe public schools; oppressive
regulatory laws, etc.
The members of the ruling class, abetted by the media and reinforced by
government-controlled educational institutions, hew to the shibboleths
grown from sixties radicalism that they believe make them morally and
intellectually superior. It is actually a pretty serious form of
narcissism to think that we humans are destroying the planet by using
coal or petroleum for energy production--or that we can save the planet
at all--yet our rulers make laws that cause actual starvation by
diverting corn to ethanol production, impoverish millions by destroying
whole industries, and even result in the deaths of otherwise protected
species of birds. They continue to warn about overpopulation,
when population control policies have actually caused irreversible doom
to ethnic groups such as Italians and Greeks that have very low birth
rates and have set China up for severe social unrest because of the
scarcity of potential wives for their overrepresented young
men. The elites, channeling John Lennon, are so bent on
making nice with a country that vows every day to destroy us that they
place us all at risk of nuclear annihilation—meanwhile eliminating our
means of defending our country from such attack. Perversion
of the principle of natural rights to the notion that anything that one
longs for or desires is a right has resulted in legitimate authorities
being stripped of reasonable power (think of the idiocy of college
students dictating which professors are qualified to teach them) and
weakening of our defense, as in police forces being cowed and thereby
rendered less effective in stopping violent crime.
Somehow, no matter the bad outcomes of the conditions imposed on us,
correct thinking insulates the elites from blame or criticism.
Those who think differently risk not only opprobrium, but perhaps much
more than that. As the system of checks and balances has been
almost destroyed and the executive and judicial branches have arrogated
unprecedented privilege and power, that power is being used more and
more to reward friends and punish enemies. It is utterly
shocking, for example to know that the U.S. Attorney General is
actually considering pursuing civil actions against “climate change
deniers.” Will a re-education camp be coming soon to a
neighborhood near you?
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