Stunning Piece by Angelo M. Codevilla in the American Spectator: America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

by the Left Coast Rebel

Perhaps after reading, dissecting and pondering Professor Angelo M. Codevilla's verbose but enlightening essay on the American ruling class, you may understand just why many things today 'just don't make sense.' It's long but more than worth the lengthy read.

One of many key excerpts:

Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters -- speaking the "in" language -- serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America's ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.

Put on your thinking cap, pour a good glass of wine (or hearty draught) and read the rest at American Spectator.

Cross posted to Left Coast Rebel.