Progressivism and the Ruling Class
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Everett Piper Everett Piper's Blog
- Updated Jan 28, 2011
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"Today's
ruling class…," says Angelo Codevilla of Boston
University, "was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same
ideas…[ideas that] gave them remarkably
uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits." He goes further and says, "These
[ideas] amount to a social canon of judgments [with
the Progressives themselves serving as God]" for "while most Americans pray to
the God ‘who created and doth sustain us,' our ruling class prays to itself as
‘saviors of the planet' and improvers of humanity…" Progressives alone, says
Codevilla, have superior insight and only they "know what's best for the
American people" whom they view as "irritable children who must learn their
place."
I couldn't
agree more! In the minds of today's ruling class (those in seats of power in
Washington, D.C.
and in universities across the land), progressivism has become the pretext and
pretention for the rule of law. In such a world, classical liberalism (i.e.,
personal freedom) no longer matters. The direction of the "smarter ones"—the
elites—ecomes our moral barometer. It is the
"wisdom" of John Dewey, John Paul Stevens, and Paul Krugman that
informs us of right and wrong. It is this "ruling class" that tells
us of the difference between good and evil. It is under their guidance that we
are told what marriage is or isn't. It is at their lectern and by their
superior intellect that we learn who should live and who shouldn't. It is at
their judicial bench that we hope for justice and accept judgment. It is by
their hand that we are policed and "protected."
If
they "are the ones we are waiting for and they are the change that we seek,"
Lord help us.