Hopey Changemas, Everyone!
GM has 96,000 employees but provides health benefits to a million people...snip...So many areas of endeavor that once embodied the youth and energy of this great land are now old and sclerotic. I include, naturally, my own industry. I loved the American newsrooms you saw in movies like The Front Page, full of hardboiled, hard-livin' newspapermen. By the time I got there myself, there were no hardboiled newspapermen, just bland anemic newspaperpersons turning out politically correct snooze sheets of torpid portentousness.
Mr. Steyn is right on about the dying industries that once, recently, defined America to the outside world and on the rising industry of entitled, self-selected elites:
After two and a third centuries of republican experiment, America has finally worked its way back to the House of Lords.
Caroline Kennedy believes she is entitled to the seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton (she also of the ilk to select their last name for greatest political advantage. This is sexist...to my knowledge men are not afforded the same opportunity*.) Caroline will not have to run for the office for 2 years and, you know, actually have to campaign and try to get voters to elect her. New Yorkers may like this, the chance to test drive a Senator, especially since there will be no test drives down at the local boarded-up car dealer. But I doubt it.
Read all of Steyn's latest. In it you will find the latest, absolutely Steynianly perfect, description of the sadly-now-typical fawning "journalist" story on a public figure.
Sadly, the entitled self-selected elites have rarely produced anything of value. They know not how this country has prospered and will continue to drive this country further into the ditch. (And there won't be a shiny, new 4x4 Suburban to pull us out of the ditch, either.)
*Wait. I just remembered Gary Hartpence. There is a common thread here, but I am insufficiently caffeinated to find it. Yet.
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I have read America Alone twice and feel it is time for another pass to see what I've missed. Maybe that is behind my down view of our future, especially under the control of our incoming socialst overlords and the Obamassiah. Yes, it is depressing but Steyn is right on and is right to sound his warning (though many of those who need to hear the warning will not and have not).
"Dreadful people." Yep. In spades. And more like them seem to be coming out of the woodwork daily, championed by the media, who also got to their station in life without surviving any competition.
Dreadful people, redux.
One of my great pleasures is talking to people who come to America for the opportunity. They love this country as I do--I was brought up to love it but I do even more because where else could I be as open as I am and know that I will be defended by the man on the street, who may not agree with me but says I have a right to exist? Such a wonderful place.
These dreadful people are essentially spoiled brats who traffic in trashing the country which makes them possible. The worst of the lot is the hideous professor Howard Zinn, who came here from a captive country and makes a living whoring his anti-Americanism to people who have had so little difficulty in their lives that not staying at the Four Seasons is a hardship. (And if you price that Canadian snobbery you'll see that there is better for less.)
I'm always amazed at how these people sneer at the Americans who keep them free and safe, and want to cuddle up with people who say they want to kill them, and mean it.
Self-loathing? Cowardice? Any speculation?
But...is Caroline really any less experienced than Hillary...at least she's lived in the state longer before becoming their Senator...
Thanks, Shepherd, for the link to Steyn. I've read all his books, except America Alone, which, ostrich-like, I found too depressing. He was the movie reviewer for The Spectator some years ago and the best one there.
The entire article was good but that one sentence just slipped a pin in the puffery of all literary criticism. And authors.
By the way, there is a documentary on the Kennedys on one of the documentary channels. Don't be suckered in by its seeming even tone at the first. At the last it becomes fawning and as we could expect idolatrous. Yes, the Kennedys had bad luck. Well, families have bad luck. But there is no third-person curse on the Kennedys. They're dreadful people, feeling very full of themselves and feel entitled to what they can get. I wonder if the family of Mary Jo Kopechne thinks they are entitled.
Why is it that the MSM seems to grant people such as the Kennedys carte blanche, along with stories about bums and layabouts, while sneering at the people who get up every day and go to work and have orderly lives?