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Foreign Policy: “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses”

Jun 30, 2016 11:18 am By Robert Spencer

The elites are indeed rising up against the masses: in the UK, they’re trying to find ways to reverse the Brexit vote and overrule the will of the people, while in the US, the Republican establishment is trying desperately to overrule the will of its own voters and deny the nomination, or the presidency, to Donald Trump. In Europe, Merkel and other leaders are doing everything they can to stifle and stigmatize dissent to their suicidal policies regarding Muslim immigration.

Yet James Traub is right: the political schism of our time is indeed between the elites and the masses. And his piece in Foreign Policy epitomizes how out of touch the elites really are, and why they need to be swept out. The masses who voted for Brexit in the UK and support Trump in the US are neither “ignorant” nor “mindlessly angry.” It is neither ignorant nor mindlessly angry to be concerned about the ramifications of massive Muslim immigration and the certainty that jihad terrorists will be among the peaceful refugees. It is neither ignorant nor mindlessly angry to consider Obama’s refusal to name the enemy, and the US government’s prohibition on studying or discussing the phenomenon of Islamic jihad, to be a disastrous misstep that hamstrings our ability to formulate effective strategies against that enemy.

What is ignorant and mindlessly angry is James Traub’s dismissal of the discontent of the masses as ignorance and mindless anger. He (and Foreign Policy in general) epitomizes the arrogance and ignorance of the political and media elites who are so richly deserving of being swept out en masse.

James Traub

“It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses,” by James Traub, Foreign Policy, June 28, 2016:

The Brexit has laid bare the political schism of our time. It’s not about the left vs. the right; it’s about the sane vs. the mindlessly angry….

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  1. ich says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:26 am

    Hes a total idiot.
    Nothing new here move on…………

    • c matt says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 12:51 pm

      He’s not an idiot – he is pure evil, as the elite are (that’s how they got to be the elite in the first place).

  2. Jaladhi says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:28 am

    Ha, ha, the elites are panicking. Its a good sign for our survival a cohesive nations and not becoming fractured Eurozones. Let them panic more and the masses will teach them a lesson – I hope!!

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:30 am

    They wish to divide us and to define us if we do not submit to their self-serving agendas.

    1 — Angry White Males
    (translation) CODE WORD of the Left to label any challenge to their insanity as RACIST.

    2 — Extreme Right
    This is how they label anyone fed us with child rape gangs and massive Muslim immigration.

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 6:43 pm

      We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly, and in which a rich man cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty.

      Theodore Roosevelt

      • Mark Swan says

        Jun 30, 2016 at 6:56 pm

        General W.T. Sherman’s Personal impression of President A. Lincoln—

        Of all the men I ever met, he seemed to possess more of the elements of greatness, combined with goodness, than any other.

        How We So Need So Many Great People.

      • aaron morand says

        Jul 2, 2016 at 7:18 pm

        as a young man I read “Rabbel in Arms”, great book for a young male who is interested
        in the making of this great Nation and what it COST many, many both elite and the common
        man……it is fiction of course but so close to the reality of things today it is uncanny…..IF the
        GOP plays a game at the convention to circumvent the VOTE of the WTP and WTP do
        NOT take to the streets in protest…..well……tell your Republican Senator/Rep. that there
        will be NO GAME PLAYING at the convention IF THEY WANT their job next election……
        VOTE TRUMP>>>>>He has the experience and the fortitude to make America great
        again……VOTE TRUMP……..and tell your GOP Congressperson to Back Him UP…….
        VOTE TRUMP…….

  4. ich says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:34 am

    its very true that in UK at least , rich people are segregated.
    Its not like in Canada-USA where its no big deal to hang with a rich guy.

    Over there theres still a sort of caste system.

    Unless things have changed. But from what I remember
    a kid from the estates does not hang with a rich kid.

    • WorkingClassPost says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 12:31 pm

      Not much has changed here, if anything it’s got worse; in that estates, kids don’t even hang out with each other.

      There are divisions within divisions

      Brutality and intimidation are the norm in many of today’s towns.

    • Charli Main says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 3:28 pm

      I believe that around 90% of the wealth in Britain is owned by less than 5% of the population.

      Who owns our green and pleasant land? – The Guardian

      http://www.theguardian.com › World › UK News › Rural affairs

  5. Angemon says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:43 am

    “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses,” by James Traub

    Ah, the whining of a sore loser – music to my ears <3 🙂

  6. Concerned Indian says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:47 am

    Not only are the Muslim migrants a hellish experience but there is this Turkey accession plan brewing.How suicidal can one get?The Turkish Muslims are already on a collision course with other Muslim groups to control both Germany and Austria.The mosques are Turkish controlled.

  7. Westman says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Ahh, the delusion of the Elite runs deep, the best social events and insular existence ending at the political guillotine of the “unwashed masses”.

    Yes, please, Elite, by all means, rise up against the “ignorant” masses so there can be no miscalculation or media spinning of your motives! And please, keep denying Jihadist motives for every barbarous act in the name of Allah until there is no credibility left. Every lie you spin raises the blade closer to its operating position. Viva la Guillotine Politique.

  8. Diane Harvey says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    Brexit probably won’t happen. 52%, while a win, is not enough to enter mandate territory (which begins IMO at 65%), and provides enough cover to the UK’s global elites to drag their feet. Here the people want Result Leave, but it has to be done (beginning with that Article 50 process, followed by the changing of certain UK laws) by the people who wanted Result Remain. At every turn they’ll be throwing sand and monkey wrenches into the gears, including doing nothing.

    But what Brexit has done is to give confidence to others, to open pathways to other countries where Result Leave has a much better chance of actually succeeding. And once we have one success, others will follow.

    The One-Worlders – the CFR here in the US, Chatham House/RIIA in the UK (with offshoots in Canada, Australia), Club of Rome, et alia – will continue their relentless pursuit of bringing the world to heel. It’s too lucrative for them to do otherwise.

    Their building blocks are already in place. The UN, the EU, the African Union, NAFTA (which is to be expanded into the North American Union, then the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)), the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

    All of these unions have one purpose – to establish world government, first through these regional governmental arrangements, and second through the elimination of the sovereignty of each country. This method follows Richard Gardner’s 1974 blueprint from his CFR article, “The Hard Road to World Order.”

    Gardner had endorsed an “end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece…” This “functional approach to world order”, Gardner explained, would involve “inventing or adapting institutions of limited jurisdiction and selected membership to deal with specific problems on a case-by-case basis…”

    • Westman says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 1:16 pm

      Although I agree with your characterization of pro-EU motives and methods, I can’t agree that the UK will stay in the EU or that the EU will survive – not because of Brexit, but for stronger ethnic reasons.

      Language is a verbal pronouncement of thought and causes a conformity of those learning it as a native language to the range of those thoughts and the ability of the language to synthesize foreign thoughts. That is, language is a product of ethnic thoughts and culture and establishes soft borders for the useful range of the language.

      The EU has far too many language-tied ethnicities to form a cohesive unit. The industrial language/ethnicity of Germany is industrial/scientific/hard-working while the language/ethnicity of Greece is social/not-hard-working. Guess which nation is an economic drag on the other?

      Though many Europeans speak several languages it is not adequate for multicultural cohesion. Come to think of it – Multicultural cohesion is an oxymoron!

      The reality is that the EU is a commercial trading entity, masquerading, falsely, as a political union.

      Whether the death of the EU will be complete or just partial, retaining some economic relationships, is uncertain. The demise of the political pseudo-nation of EU is inevitable as more EU countries become welfare recipients of the EU and the economic and social costs of uncontolled Muslim migration bear down upon it. The “ignorant masses” who are often better informed than the Elite, will see to it.

    • DAI says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 1:50 pm

      Diane. that result in any type election stands so the 52% stands too.
      .

      • Mark Swan says

        Jun 30, 2016 at 8:14 pm

        This Swell would not be so disturbed if it were meaningless—you can sense the fear here.

  9. ConanKong says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:16 pm

    I read this `article’. I first thought it was satire. But the guy is serious. Moron.

  10. WorkingClassPost says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    For sure, these elites are the best of people, and we the masses, are the worst of people.

    It’s all starting to make sense.

  11. mortimer says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    Patronizing, condescending Western elites are guilty of promoting the cultural and physical extermination of their own peoples, races and nations.

    Imagine administrators who plotted to replace all black people in Africa. Would their be an outcry. And yet, it is fine to replace all Europeans with Muslims.

    The insanity of this is no different from that of Hitler’s plan to replace all Slavic people with ethnic Germans.

    This is nothing but Hitler’s nightmare refashioned by substituting Muslims as the new Master Race.

    • c matt says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 12:59 pm

      I don’t think the elite are looking to the Muslims as a master race, but as a bunch of hot-tempered half-wits (being generous – you could not have half a wit and believe anything Mo said) they can use to do their bidding/dirty work of breaking Europeans. But, like any dangerous beast, a musloid is unpredictable. A shepherd who replaces his sheep with vipers is not a bright shepherd. It is hubris that will destroy the “elites” in the end.

  12. CogitoErgoSum says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:37 pm

    By stating, “It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses” Traub means that most people are too dumb to know what is good for them and so the dumb should step aside and let the few with brains make all the decisions. Ah, but of course most people are too dumb to know this so they can’t be trusted to vote for what is best for them. In other words, it’s time to put an end to democracy. I think the people are smarter than that, Mr. Traub.

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 8:11 pm

      Yes, You got it, it does seem to be exactly what He is preaching.

  13. Michael Laudahn says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    This reminds me a bit of Switzerland, the ‘direct democracy’. You know, the people there vote 4 times are year on federal referendums (plus such held in cantons and councils), and then politics will be shaped accordingly. Oh really? I’ve watched it for a while, and my impression was that politicians do not let themselves disturb from pursuing their agenda by referendum results. These just serve as soon-forgotten front-page stories, and of course to maintain one of the international myths that Switzerland thrives on.

  14. sog says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:46 pm

    The Elite tend to sit on revenue systems that are, from a marketing standpoint, High market share, low market growth. Banking and Energy come to mind. Such a marketing segment according to the Boston Consulting Group Format is called a “Cash Cow”. (Google Boston Consulting group matrix).

    Such cash cows can be maintained decade after decade through the implementation of “BARRIERS TO COMPETITIVE ENTRY”. Since cash cows are typically “low growth”, the method used to make more money is to cut costs… which means there will be very little hiring.

    The solution is to pit the upper middle class against the Elite and make them struggle to maintain their market share. They will lose to new systems and new markets which *will* require a lot of hieing required to capture market share even in new markets.

    … Just so you know.

  15. Wellington says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 12:47 pm

    The elites are into power and they have a contempt for the masses. Much more of this rot exists with Leftist elitists but there’s enough of this rot to be found on the Right as well. As a Jeffersonian liberal who believes in the common man and that government is best which ordinarily governs least, I have contempt for those who have contempt for ordinary folks, who tend, btw, to get the big picture correct many more times than the elites do.

    Just look at how many ordinary folks by now have figured out that Islam is not just another religion but something profoundly screwed up and troubling while the elites on both sides of the political spectrum keep stupidly doubling down as more evidence comes to light regularly that Islam is profound bad news for liberty, equality under the law, women’s rights and other good things like beer, happiness and love. Yes indeed, as I mentioned years ago here at JW, I would far sooner have the two million people of West Virginia run America for the next ten years than the two million people who live and work in Manhattan. Easily so. No contest. Would sleep well at night knowing this.

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 8:20 pm

      Yes indeed, I like those last few lines there—thanks Wellington.

    • hmmm says

      Jul 1, 2016 at 4:56 pm

      yes, except i disagree with the opinion that the elites simply “don’t get” what islam is about, i think they completely get it, yet are willing to double down in their efforts at obfuscation to maintain their party base, and increase their numbers with the multitudes of muslims arriving daily. what amazes me is the average person who obediently follows along like sheep going off a cliff.

  16. DAI says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 1:57 pm

    So, what are we going to do about it is the problem.I believe the time has come to get to the streets and let these parasites know precisely how we feel and we are not putting up with it anymore. Anyone with organisation skills out there please start something 14

  17. Veritas says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 2:02 pm

    “Rule, Britannia! waive the rules:
    “Britons [censored] will be slaves.”

    “sane vs. the mindlessly angry”, or Brexit vs Remain.

    No taxation without representation sounds like a good plan.

  18. DFD says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    To (in no particular order):
    ====================

    Angemon
    Jay Boo
    Gravenimage
    RonaldB
    Mark Swan
    Charli Main

    etc….Anyone who bothers reading my posts…..

    Hi All,

    I established the “Google thing” and place two items into this. One is a folder, and within this folder is a test document.

    Before providing the links, what I seek from you is to attempt to modify the document “Test.doc”. If not possible, hopefully, please leave a message there. And here as well, please! Because it’s the first time I am using this facility, so I am very unsure.

    I am even unsure how to ‘see’ comments in there, since there aren’t any so far. Zero experience.

    So, apologies for requiring assistance. Kind regards All.

    Links:
    Test folder
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BySgBCEgoL-RY2dRZWpEc1BlWEU
    Test.doc (the file in the test folder)
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BySgBCEgoL-RR0RqRHp5NjlKVmM

    Thanks All ?

    PS: Sorry for cross posting, but I don’t know who of you stays on this thread or goes onto a new on. Thanks for you kind understanding.

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 8:28 pm

      Thanks DFD we’ll give er a try and let you know—it’ll work out.

    • Angemon says

      Jul 2, 2016 at 3:09 pm

      I can’t modify the file, DFD.

  19. abad says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 3:05 pm

    One thing for sure about the American Liberal Elite:

    They may talk a LOT about equality, the rights of the oppressed (Muslims), ad nauseum, but in reality are the last people to really give a damn.

    In short, the American Liberal Elite is NOT to be trusted.

  20. Hokken says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 4:03 pm

    I don’t think the elites are out of touch with the reality at all, they very well know what the reality is and what they are doing. They just think that power and money will protect them from the incoming chaos and in a way they are right, large amount of money and power is a good shield in a greed-driven society but that shield won’t last forever and if they don’t bite the dust in this life, the children they leave behind will.

    • Mark Swan says

      Jun 30, 2016 at 8:32 pm

      The best made plans of Mice and Men.

  21. Daniel F X Dravot says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    As Dick Tuck would say, “The people have spoken, the Bastards.”

  22. Guest says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 5:07 pm

    The elites already have too much power.

  23. Westman says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    Of course it is. But it is their greatest delusion that they can make it last.

    How many Royals have thought, since childhood, that they were heaven-born with a Divine Right Of Kings only to be deposed by some rabble who created a new line of Elites? There is little difference in the range of intelligence between the Elite and the “ignorant masses”. The Elites are simply “entitled” (some by title) to more exclusive opportunities, the “high born” dialect, and a better education. As the saying goes, “they were born on third base and claim they hit a triple.”

    Islam is coming to “make the world flat” in a comedic version of Thomas Friedman’s, “The World Is Flat” Friedman just hasn’t got the message yet. He’s still carrying water for Islam, insisting that it’s only the Saudi flavor of Islam that is causing jihad, when it’s all found in the Quran and Hadith.

    This Harvard-educated elitist author of the “rise up” article, James Traub, is a son of an American Aristocrat. In America the Aristocracy is either from the leadership of big business or in bed with it.

  24. Peter says

    Jun 30, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    I am sure the masses can teach a thing or two to this elite boy in a suit and tie .I am really humbled by his humility !

  25. David says

    Jul 1, 2016 at 9:37 am

    Time for torches and pitchforks?

  26. Guest says

    Jul 1, 2016 at 11:22 am

    Traub’s essay is evidence that the downtrodden “Elites” are becoming worried about the longevity of their power. May that worry be converted into panic, and then into paranoia.

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