We’re All Soviets Now
A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar?
June 18, 2024
The excerpt below exemplifies the problems facing the West today.
The gulf that now separates the “nomenklatura” from the average American, can be clearly seen in the findings of a Rasmussen poll from September 2023, “which sought to distinguish the attitudes of the Ivy Leaguers from ordinary Americans. The poll defined the former as “those having a postgraduate degree, a household income of more than $150,000 annually, living in a zip code with more than 10,000 people per square mile,” and having attended ‘Ivy League schools or other elite private schools, including Northwestern, Duke, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.’”
Asked if they would favor “rationing of gas, meat, and electricity” to fight climate change, 89% of Ivy Leaguers said yes, as against 28% of regular people.
Asked if they would personally pay $500 more in taxes and higher costs to fight climate change, 75% of the Ivy Leaguers said yes, versus 25% of everyone else.
“Teachers should decide what students are taught, as opposed to parents” was a statement with which 71 percent of the Ivy Leaguers agreed, nearly double the share of average citizens.
“Does the U.S. provide too much individual freedom?” More than half of Ivy Leaguers said yes; just 15% of ordinary mortals did.
The elite were roughly twice as fond as everyone else of members of Congress, journalists, union leaders, and lawyers. [!]
Perhaps unsurprisingly, 88% of the Ivy Leaguers said their personal finances were improving, as opposed to one in five of the general population.
See the whole piece on The Free Press here: https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now
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