According to the global editor of Reuters, who wrote a piece published today in the New York Times, the fault line in politics is pretty simple to understand.
Obama supporters are the “highly educated, technologically adept super-elite” and Perry supporters are “the squeezed and scared middle class.”
Super elite? Do they get capes? Yeah, they probably do. We just have to pay for them.
You’ve gotta’ check out these quotes from a piece that ran in the New York Times by Chrystia Freeland, the Global Editor of Reuters.
I’m just gonna’ pull some sentences out to give you a flavor.
You might call it the cognitive divide — the split between an evidence-based worldview and one that is rooted in faith or ideology — and it is one of the most important fault lines in the United States today.
President Barack Obama called attention to the cognitive divide, and reminded us which side he comes down on, at the beginning of this week, when he chose the Princeton University economist Alan Krueger to lead his Council of Economic Advisers.
You know, because Republican Presidents pick economists based on all that oogedy-boogedy religious stuff. Numbers!? What numbers?
The president is an empiricist. He wants to do what works, not what conforms to a particular ideology or what pleases a particular constituency. His core belief is a belief in facts.
The stimulus worked? So why are we looking for a new economic adviser if he does what works?
Word crunchers found that the president’s 2009 inaugural address was the first one to use the term “data” and only the second to mention “statistics.”
What?! I’ve used the word “propulsion.” That doesn’t mean I’m a rocket scientist, does it?
That cognitive approach is one reason Mr. Obama attracted so much support, especially among younger people, on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. Mr. Obama is a data-driven technocrat, and so are the traders and the Internet entrepreneurs.
Hey, we all know that young people are sooooo empirical. If you want long term analysis you go right to 18 year olds. If you have trouble finding them they’re probably videotaping themselves behind the public school drinking their parents three year old vodka while skateboarding.
And quick question -since when do libs see the endorsement of folks on Wall Street as a good thing?
OK. Anyway. So she’s embarrased herself on the Obama part but just wait until she gets to Governor Rick Perry and the GOP. It actually gets funnier.
The candidates who have made the strongest start are those with a proudly faith-based approach. According to a Quinnipiac University poll released this week, Governor Rick Perry of Texas is the Republican front-runner. He spoke at a Christian religious rally on the eve of entering the primary contest last month and has questioned the science of evolution and climate change.
He spoke at a Christian religious rally? What?! That means he’s an enemy of science, right?
Never mind that, according to several news reports, Obama brings up God and prayer more than even George W. Bush ever did. (Pssst. They think he doesn’t mean it though.)
But then she drops it on us. Ready for it. Here’s the base of her thinking right here.
The divide between the empiricists and the believers is also the fault line between the highly educated, technologically adept super-elite and the squeezed and scared middle class.
Read that again just to make sure you got that.
So let me guess. Good ol’ Chrystia considers herself part of which team? Hmmm. I’m betting it’s the one that calls itself “super elite.”
I think I always knew that’s how they thought of us. I just didn’t think they’d actually say it out loud.
Exit question: How far removed is her statement from “To the gas chamber with you!”
September 1, 2011 at 5:29 pm
My body may have evolved but how does Christia explain my ability to reason,to act in consent of free will and to object to being called unequal to my peers who act in reason and free will? In free will, I am equal to Christia, Obama, I own the public square, the oval office of Mr. President and hold the unalienable rights and freedoms of all persons ever created in Justice and equality. The media denies my rights and calls themselves very, very smart. The NYTimes needs to get over it. Obama may need some help in getting over it. Until Obama recognizes the unalienable rights endowed by our Creator and all of our founding principles, and if I am dubfounded, I am stunned by the arrogance and profound ignorance of the man in our oval office, he needs to answer to almighty God for what he is doing. Allelujia means standing in the people of God. Obama, the NYTimes and Christia have no Allelujia nor standing in the people of God, nor standing in the unalienable rights, nor equality, nor freedom, nor Justice.
Mary De Voe
September 1, 2011 at 5:56 pm
IF Obama is smart have I got a Golden Calf for you. I wonder if Golden Calf's have Golden Calf's livers and if they are any good to eat. Stupid is as stupid does. I'll bet Christia eats Golden Calf's liver.
If you think I am going to put my name on this nonsense You've got another think coming. I am surprized that Christia put her name on that nonsense.
September 1, 2011 at 6:18 pm
The problem with the New York Times, with this editor, with Intelligencia, with the mentality of the super elites, is their supreme belief in the infalibility of their own intellects.
It is a surreal mix of "Question everything" with "Except me, my choices, my life, or my opinion." It is a arrogance of conscience.
This woman, and those she would consider part of her club, love these policies and thus this President, just as they loved Clinton for the same reason.
It's no big deal and perfectly understandable to the rest of us not so evolved beings, to love someone who touts what you cherish as sacred, to invest emotionally in a leader who seems to embody what you value. But saying you love a person sounds so fanboyish, amature, high schoolish; so it's better and easier to paint those who don't agree with your opinions and who disagree with this President as lesser beings, unworthy of concern or discussion.
It's better to paint those of the opposition as people of hate, it makes the fact that they disagree less of an issue. You don't have to talk to or consider the feelings or thoughts of those who act out of hate. Their opinions don't count.
This pharisaical scribe Christina presumes much about everyone that is not she.
September 1, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Someone tell this Christia there is a reason the Berlin Wall is not still standing. This is 'empirical' evidence Obamas direction is based on ideology and not 'data.' I'm wondering, where does she get her drugs from?
September 1, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Christia needs to defend this. Let's see how smart she is:
Three years of Obama – the VERY BEST the Democrats have ever had to offer – has given us:
- $14 trillion deficit
– US in a depression
– ruined economy
– US credit rating downgraded
- ignores the War Powers Act
– gas/food/clothing prices skyrocketing
– 5 wars, one with a record death toll
– foreign policy disasters
– raiding the public pension fund to avoid the debt ceiling
– lost 800+ seats for his own party
- poll numbers in the toilet
- 44 million Americans on food stamps
– Over half the states suing to get out of Obamacare.
– 1 in 4 mortgages under water
- ATF gunrunning scandal unfolding
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!
September 1, 2011 at 7:32 pm
This is of a piece with a story from "Psychology Today" arguing that, doggone it, liberals control the media and academia because they're simply more intelligent then us unenlightened knuckle-draggers. The unabashed arrogance of the modern secular progressive is breathtaking, isn't it?
September 1, 2011 at 9:03 pm
Re: your exit question. "Tenderness leads to the gas chambers." (Father Smith in The Thanatos Syndrome).
September 1, 2011 at 11:47 pm
It is the religion of state worship that nearly inevitably follows accepting the Darwinist atheist worldview. Their Darwinism allows them to believe that humans are nothing but higher order animals and that they are highest order. This assessment is based on their having no troublesome moral scruples against doing absolutely anything to achieve their aims, ALWAYS posited as for the common good, and more recently, for the good of the planet. The worst and most ruthless always rise to the top because they will stop at nothing to get there proving to themselves that they are "super elite", more "fit", "nonsuperstitious", more "scientific", blah, blah. Good and decent people are constrained by traditional morality from assassinating their rivals, killing innocents, etc. To the Christias the ends justify the means. This mindset is common among teachers, urbanites on either coast who view themselves as enlightened and those of us in fly over country and more conservative as in need of their rule. We are simply so unbelievably stupid that we don't see it. Sort of an updated version of the imperialist worldview of the British empire, the Roman empire, now the US-state empire. Lesser humans must be re-educated/drugged/confined/assimilated.
September 2, 2011 at 12:09 am
Something tells me that Chrystia has an Obama Pillow that she cuddles up to at night. And I betcha it makes her feel totally . . . "super-elite"!
September 2, 2011 at 12:52 am
The blatant ignorance and irrationality of this wholly ideological piece shows a capacity for self-delusion which is so pronounced as to cause embarrassment in any reader of average intelligence, academic and social. The NYT, like so many other radical utilitarian press undertakings, has dispensed with any attempt to at least appear rational and objective; they have become brainwashed by decades of their dominant propaganda and figure the general public has been too. Lynda The blatant ignorance and irrationality of this wholly ideological piece shows a capacity for self-delusion which is so pronounced as to cause embarrassment in any reader of average intelligence, academic and social. The NYT, like so many other radical utilitarian press undertakings, has dispensed with any attempt to at least appear rational and objective; they have become brainwashed by decades of their dominant propaganda and figure the general public has been too. Lynda
September 2, 2011 at 1:26 am
No, its ok, because Obama et. al. want to HELP us bible huggers give up our religious convictions, stop having so many children, and use public transportation, public housing, public assistance and public schools.
We are just to stupid to see that our God, our Families and our desires for privacy and autonomy are Bad.
We're so lucky to have these guiding lights.
September 2, 2011 at 1:35 am
whoops! too stupid…
September 2, 2011 at 1:57 am
Are these the super elite intelligentia?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIkksi344cM
September 2, 2011 at 2:19 am
Okie dokie then. If America has reached utopia with Obama, I must have died and gone to Hell.
Guess the hubby and I will just have to throw away all of our advanced degrees in Aerospace engineering and Computer Science… As Christians we obviously don't qualify for the highly educated, super-elite, Utopian status.
BTW – the climate has always been in a state of change if they understood the theory of evolution they'd make the connection.
Read this today on http://jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/ and thought this was worth sharing, the quote is in reference to the AGW alarmist:
"The common factor in all this alarmism is the end of industry, the end of prosperity, the end of freedom, the end of security. That is their focus. Their focus is not ice ages or global warming, their focus is on the deindustrialization of humanity. No matter how the problem manifests, the solution is always the same — a nihilistic philosophy that might as well flow from a modern-day death cult."
September 2, 2011 at 2:21 am
Oh, for all of you "Catholic" Obama supporters. Obama is a Christian. wink wink nudge nudge
September 2, 2011 at 4:21 pm
Maybe all of us "squeezed and scared middle class" should boycott the NYT and their advertisers, because after-all….we're all too stupid to read anyway, right? (sarc) I think she might have confused the word "empiricists" with "imperious"–overbearing, arrogant, despotic, and dictatorial.
September 3, 2011 at 3:19 am
Wow! You're so smart with all those adjectives that you use.
September 3, 2011 at 3:41 am
Her comments would be hilarious if they were not actually scary because when I read super-elite I hear Elitist and elitism….interestingly isn't that just a secular way of saying 'holier than thou'? They need alot of prayers everyone should join in the 50th anni of Fr Peyton's Rorary rally on 15th Oct in San Fran CA this year.
September 3, 2011 at 11:44 am
…as the parade marched past, all of the crowd were awed by the ruler's finery until a voice rang out. "LOOK, THE EMPEROR IS NOT WEARING ANY CLOTHES!"