I found the article just silly. Yes, the comparison between Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow is apt. Maybe we should call the Trumpists “trigger finger voters” and the Clinton voters, “think before you pull the trigger” voters.
Also apt, to this student (and survivor) of WW II are the parallels between what Trump has said, and what the rising Hitler said, and how their followers behaved as a consequence. I took particular issue with “the ripping of the social fabric by immigration”—especially since my family and I, and my husband and his family, were immigrants. A visit to the Jerusalem show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells you how Jerusalem at its height (1100-1500) was one of the great cities of the world, because it was deeply and widely multicultural (yes, the three major religions, but dozens of sects in each of them). Shut down the immigrants and the merchants go away. Drive the merchants away and the place begins to decline. Am I elite? You bet. I worked my ass off in college—I put myself through a first-rate university, worked in a low-paying clerical job for a few more years (because that was the only job path open to women, no matter how well educated they were), then went to an Ivy graduate school. I earned my elite status, and I was very lucky in the bargain. I vote for school bonds that no children of mine will ever need, because I think it’s for the greater good. I pay extra taxes to support Medicare, and I do it willingly, though I would much rather see not a reform of Medicare, but a reform of the entire medical system. But hey, we have a real-time experiment coming up. Let’s just see how much better the country is under a Trump executive and a Republican Congress. > On Dec 1, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Eric Charles <eric.phillip.char...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Glen, > The style matters. Oddly quite a bit. "Liberal elitism" is snobbish, aloof, > and patronizing. Note, it is not the way in which they are "elite", but the > "elitism" that rankles the most. Trump's financial-elite bull-in-a-china-shop > schtick looks and feels very different, and there are many people who would > much rather deal with it. Bill Clinton was a friggin' Rhodes scholar, but > connected with everyday Americans, and wasn't, until he sought to get so > aggressively dynastic, at risk of the "liberal elite" label. I've not heard > it leveled at Carter either. On the other hand, Gore and Kerry reeked of it, > and that was part of their problem. > > As the article says towards the end: > " “High information” people ignore evidence if it conflicts with their > preferred narrative all the time. And while it may be naïve for voters to > believe the promises of Trump and the Brexit campaigners — it has also been > profoundly naïve for the cosmopolitan classes to believe that years of forced > internationalism and forced political correctness were never going to end > with a large scale backlash." > > > > > ----------- > Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. > Supervisory Survey Statistician > U.S. Marine Corps > <mailto:echar...@american.edu> > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 1:22 PM, ┣glen┫ <geprope...@gmail.com > <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 12/01/2016 10:11 AM, cody dooderson wrote: > > Sorry, but I found the first article very disturbing. It seems like an > > opinion piece that might have come out during the rise of the Nazi party. > > It blames the 'parasitic educated' class, praises the virtues of the > > military service, and argues in favor racial segregation. > > My very shallow reading on the rise of the Nazi party led me to believe > > that they had a very similar platform. > > +1 > > On a slight tangent: I'm still confused about why so many feel compelled to > prefix "elite" with "liberal". If this were really about anti-elitism, we'd > see just as much silly spewage toward buffoons like Trump (who just knows > better -- trust him -- he's the only one who can make america great again). > Despite my confusion, I'm inclined to believe it's because only really lazy > people yap incoherently about "elitism." The rest of us work our butts off > to specialize ... elite machinists, elite cowboys, elite bow hunters, elite > beer drinkers ... I am an elite. But I'm not a liberal. So, the bias(es) > inherent in articles like this are blatantly obvious. > > > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net > > <mailto:o...@backspaces.net> <mailto:o...@backspaces.net > > <mailto:o...@backspaces.net>>> wrote: > > > > I love it. The Elites are getting hammered. Snobocracy is now so > > visible that it can be attacked for what it really is. > > > > > > http://quillette.com/2016/11/30/stop-calling-people-low-information-voters/ > > <http://quillette.com/2016/11/30/stop-calling-people-low-information-voters/> > > > > <http://quillette.com/2016/11/30/stop-calling-people-low-information-voters/ > > > > <http://quillette.com/2016/11/30/stop-calling-people-low-information-voters/>> > > > > This was also referred to by this: > > > > http://quillette.com/2016/11/14/cut-out-the-literally-hitler-hysteria/ > > <http://quillette.com/2016/11/14/cut-out-the-literally-hitler-hysteria/> > > <http://quillette.com/2016/11/14/cut-out-the-literally-hitler-hysteria/ > > <http://quillette.com/2016/11/14/cut-out-the-literally-hitler-hysteria/>> > > > > I love a good rant! Liberal Elites lost the election. 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