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Jewish World Review
Dec. 15, 2009/ 28 Kislev 5770
Privileged Exemption
By
Arnold Ahlert
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The contemptible mindset of intellectual elitists can be reduced to just two words: "privileged exemption."
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Al Gore and his soulmates want to "save the planet" from global warmingwhich completely justifies their flying to conferences in private jets, riding around in gas-guzzling limos, and living in homes that use twenty times the energy of ordinary houses.
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Congress can destroy the best health care system in the worldbecause they have their own Cadillac health care coverage, and will never have to endure whatever system they foist on us.
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College professors can rail against the injustice of our democratic republic and our capitalist systembecause they live in college-supplied housing, have job-for-life tenure, and adjuncts relieving them from much of the "burden" of teaching.
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Politicians and celebrities are overwhelmingly in favor of "gun control"because they have armed bodyguards and live in protected communities.
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The same bunch wants "social justice," even if it bankrupts America in the processbecause they've already amassed so much personal wealth (from the very same capitalist system they ostensibly abhor) that no amount of "income re-distribution" will alter their lifestyles one iota.
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The miserable status quo of public education, due in large part to the intransigence of union contracts which nullify accountability, is acceptablebecause the children of the elitists attend private schools, and because elite politicians need union contributions to get re-elected.
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Prosecuting wars without an all-out effort to achieve victory is acceptablebecause "other peoples' kids" are doing the fighting and dying, and it's far more important to be "sensitive" to our enemy's concerns.
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Legalizing millions of lawbreaking border-busters is the "right thing to do"because the privileged in business get cheap labor, and the privileged in politics get cheap votes.
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All attempts to foist world governance on America are perfectly acceptablebecause elitists will be running things, and "messy impediments" like the Constitution will be unnecessary.
Privileged exemption, aka "do as I say, not as I do" has always been an integral part of the elitist mindset. It drives them to impose their agenda on the rest of us as a means of realizing a worldwide utopia, in which all the injustice of the world will have been eliminated, and everyone will be "equal."
Except for the elitists.
Why? Maintaining equality requires enforcement. Ask anyone who ever lived in a so-called "worker's paradise" who the most hated among them were, and you'll get the same answer: the "protectors of equality," from the ruling-party apparatchiks driving better cars and eating better food, to the secret police more than willing to crush dissent by any means necessary.
It is no accident that those who never face real world consequences for the bad decisions they make can be so casually indifferent to their irresponsibility. Such consequences are for "little people," and casual indifference can be reduced to one idea: if push comes to shove, I've got mine, the hell with everyone else.
The rest of us? Elitists insist that we don't eat meat or food with trans-fats, don't drive big cars, that we turn our thermostats up in summer and down in winter, mustn't smoke, and shouldn't have too many kids. We, not they, must learn to live withand be happy withless. Affluence isn't for everybody.
Only those with privileged exemption can handle it.
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Previously:
11/30/09: Settled Science and Unsettled Children
11/30/09: American Sharia Law
11/23/09:The Trial (Travesty) of the Century
11/04/09: American Vampires and Their Political Enablers
11/01/09: Opting Out of Insanity?
10/28/09: Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer. Brain Required
10/26/09: Communism: Nazism With Better PR
10/21/09: Just Asking
10/16/09: Cost Projections vs. Actual Costs, or Hope and Change vs. Reality
10/14/09: News you can use …
10/07/09: Incremental Insidiousness
10/05/09: MIA: Common Sense and Common Decency
09/30/09: Iran: Bad Options and Unpreparedness
09/21/09: Crying Racism: the Last Refuge of Scoundrels
09/11/09: 9/11 Cannot Be Sanitized
09/08/09: Truthers and Consequences
09/01/09: A Paper Trail Challenge for the Mainstream Media
08/31/09: Drowning in Amorality
08/26/09: The Republican Recovery Program
© 2009, Arnold Ahlert
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