Re:Circulation of Elites
by jancsika on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:12PM
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At least lately, it seems way more relevant to watch second-order effects of a short/mid- term play come back to bite the homogenized class of elites in the ass.
E.g., fruit rotting on the vines in Alabama back in 2012 or so because they passed a law essentially deputizing all police to be ICE agents. Turns out it's lucrative to scream "they took yer jobs" on cable news all day long, but not so lucrative to accidentally energize a bunch of racists into taking action on it. And you can bet that if "ordinary people" hadn't been completely on board, they'd have burned down the statehouse before letting "Boss Hogg" restrict what the "Duke Boys" can do on their own farms. (Granted, Dukes of Hazzard was Georgia, but you get the drift.)
Also-- "circulation of elites" seems more fitting to describe what happens when you see someone like David Frum start appearing regularly on MSNBC instead of Fox News.
E.g., fruit rotting on the vines in Alabama back in 2012 or so because they passed a law essentially deputizing all police to be ICE agents. Turns out it's lucrative to scream "they took yer jobs" on cable news all day long, but not so lucrative to accidentally energize a bunch of racists into taking action on it. And you can bet that if "ordinary people" hadn't been completely on board, they'd have burned down the statehouse before letting "Boss Hogg" restrict what the "Duke Boys" can do on their own farms. (Granted, Dukes of Hazzard was Georgia, but you get the drift.)
Also-- "circulation of elites" seems more fitting to describe what happens when you see someone like David Frum start appearing regularly on MSNBC instead of Fox News.